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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!Braae!g89r4222 From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: dual processor motherboards the way forward? Date: 5 Oct 1994 08:45:05 GMT Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services Lines: 20 Message-ID: <36tp2h$lru@quagga.ru.ac.za> References: <Cww6x9.1A0@gnome.co.uk> <36hous$fdv@exile.oec.com> <36stq0$177@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> Reply-To: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za NNTP-Posting-Host: braae.ru.ac.za X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) In <36stq0$177@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> plocher@Sun.COM (John Plocher (x86158 MPk12-3581)) writes: >For comparison's sake, SunOS 4.x uses a form of ASMP on Sun's MP >hardware, Solaris 2.x is fully SMP. The complexity difference is >large, but the performance differences (scalability wrt # of CPUs...) >seem to be worth it :-) But then again, Solaris 2.x seems to require at least twice the resources required by SunOS 4 in order to run _at_ _all_, so you probably land up needing a SMP machine to get any decent sort of performance. (:-) for the humour-impaired) Geoff. -- Geoff Rehmet, Computer Science Department, Rhodes University, South Africa FreeBSD core team: csgr@freebsd.org | ____ _ o /\ csgr@cs.ru.ac.za, geoff@neptune.ru.ac.za |___ _-\_<, / /\/\ finger rehmet@cs.ru.ac.za for PGP public key | (*)/'(*) /\/ / \ \