On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 10:02:52PM -0700, Michael Graff wrote:
> 
> It looks like the company I work for is going to go with FreeBSD,
> since it has SMP and NetBSD doesn't.  I would really like to fix this,
> and if I can at least show that there are plans to support SMP on
> NetBSD/i386 sometime "soonish" I might be able to.

You may want to follow some of the 'Big Giant Lock' thread from FreeBSD,
here:

http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/pub/Seung-Hoon.Cha/COMPUTER/FREEBSD/SMP/index.html

Have you analyzed the company's application to determine whether big lock
SMP will actually provide a useful performance gain in your app?

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
All this stuff in twice the space would only look half as bad!
					      - me