[ On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 13:13:25 (-0800), Aaron J. Grier wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: netbsd-2-0-RELEASE
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:12:39PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Monday, November 29, 2004 at 11:52:04 (-0800), Aaron J. Grier wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: netbsd-2-0-RELEASE
> > >
> > > no SMP support on i386 is a showstopper for the 1.6
> > > branch.
> > 
> > It shouldn't be.  The ratio of UP to MP machines is nowhere near high
> > enough to make it a "showstopper".
> 
> too strong a word.  I have an MP i386 machine and the extra speed is
> very helpful.

Ah, I though so -- showstopper "for me" would have clarified!  ;-)


> maybe "embarrassing" is more appropriate?

Oh, I don't know....  I've only got a very few machines that are
dual-CPU capable so far and though I'm sure we could all use the extra
cycles, even if all we ever do is run a modern web browser, or a modern
version of gcc for that matter, or any ugly mess of perl or python
scripts.

I sure do like having SMP on my alpha (with 1.6.2_STABLE)....  :-)

(with only 400MHz 21164a's it would be, nay, IS, way too slow to do more
than just act as an NFS server if it runs on just one)

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