Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

[Jerry McAllister]

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> 
> On Jul 13, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Danial Thom wrote:
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> > Simply enabling SMP on a single processor system
> > adds 20-25% overhead in freebsd 6.1. Again,
> > readily admitted/accepted by the developers.
> > There is no way to recover that in efficiency, at
> > least not for a long time.
> 
> So don't enable SMP on a single cpu system.  Easy enough to avoid.
> Chad

Why would anyone want to enable SMP on a single CPU system anyway.
That would prove nothing other than that someone doesn't know
what SMP is.   Statistics about stunts like that might help pad
a student paper, but they don't reveal much of value.

////jerry

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