Subject: Re: NetBSD - ready for prime-time fileserving?
To: Lou GLASSY <glassy@caesar.cs.montana.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 10/07/1999 11:55:21
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:38:21 -0600 (MDT) 
 Lou GLASSY <glassy@caesar.cs.montana.edu> wrote:

 > One candidate would be a dual-intel box with a sh**load of ram &
 > scsi disk, running FreeBSD (since NetBSD doesn't support a 
 > second processor yet).  Another option could involve a few 

Pointless, since FreeBSD, when doing lots of I/O (like would be
happening on a file server) can't effectively utilize the second
processor, since only one processor can be in the kernel at a time.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>