smp xeon question

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Wed Jan 12 23:34:41 PST 2005


Frank Mancuso wrote:

>Hello there, I have a dual xeon 2.8's and 2gb of ram. And was
>wondering which version of FreeBSD would be better to install. FreeBSD
>4.10 or FreeBSD 5.3. On all my other systems which are P4 1.9's I've
>used FreeBSD 4.10, cause I was very comfortable with it. But as of SMP
>support. I'm not sure on the hardware support on either versions.
>  
>
Both will work, you'll get more performance out of 5.3 but it's still 
fairly recent release so your mileage may vary more than with 4.x.

Pete



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