Not to beat a dead horse, but ...

andrew clarke mail at ozzmosis.com
Mon Jun 9 19:22:26 UTC 2014


On Sun 2014-06-08 20:58:36 UTC+0200, Andreas Nilsson (andrnils at gmail.com) wrote:

> > The party line seems to be, "Well, everybody knows SCHED_ULE sucks
> > on uniprocessors."  Hello?  Not everybody has upgraded to multiple
> > core or hyperthreaded processors yet.  Do we really want to write
> > off every uniprocessor piece of hardware out here?
> >
> Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is
> a dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre"
> hardware. Top of the line phones has 8 cores. So, seriously, what
> non-ancient system have you acquired that is uniprocessor? Please
> include links for available hardware for laptops, desktops or servers.

Don't discount virtual machines, where a FreeBSD guest OS might be
configured to use only one of the host system's CPUs.


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