SMP support maturity? AMD64x2 or FX-57?

[Pete French]

> if I should go with dual procs or just a single. The AMD64x2 is
> slightly cheaper than the FX-57 so I'm leaning that way, but it
> would be a rather pointless savings if SMP isn't well supported.

Well, I've not triied it under amd64, but i386 SMP has been rock stable
for me since I upgraded to 5.X, on both nyperthreaded machines and genuine
SMP machines.

Choosing one or two cores is, however, more a matter of what the box is
going to be doing - if you are usually running one big compute job
then a single faster core is better than two smaller ones.

> So, is SMP in -STABLE ready for primetime? Can it really make use of two processors?

Yes and yes.

-pcf.