Hello.  I'm new to the NetBSD port-i386 mailing list.  I just bought a machine to tinker with.  It's a Compaq Proliant 8500 with Quad 550MHz Intel Pentium 3 XEON processors (Expandable up to 8 processors), 1GB ram (Expandable to 16GB), and I was wondering a few things about SMP support with the i386 version of NetBSD.  I've used NetBSD in the past, I know how it works and what it works on at the general angle.  I was just wondering if the NetBSD 2.0 i386 port is mature enough to support oh say 8 550 XEONS with generally good stability and close to full performance capability.  SMP was just recently added to NetBSD so I really don't know how mature exactly it is.  Please leave me some feedback regarding the maturity of the 2.0 kernel and Quad and above systems on i386 hardware.

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James Cornell
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