Hummm

You certainly know that the largest FTP server on the internet is a
uniprocessor using a standard 3.3 release of FreeBSD ? (ftp.cdrom.com
aka www.freebsd.org - the stats are at
<http://www.emsphone.com/stats/cdrom.html>)

The intel processors are speedy enough that they aren't the bottleneck
(you disk drives will be, unless you have multiple SCSI adapters and
lots of individual drives)

	Cheers

	Tfh (obviously a happy freebsd user,and too lazy install a second BSD)


Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> 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>