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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!iglou!heathers.stdio.com!usenet From: risner@stdio.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy Subject: Re: Win32 CreateThread() vs Unix fork() Date: 13 Dec 1995 05:25:08 GMT Organization: Image Tech Computing Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4alo3k$u3@heathers.stdio.com> References: <4ab85f$idq@news.voicenet.com> <4adu72$nkf@heathers.stdio.com> <4aig98$mca@madeline.ins.cwru.edu> <4akev2$e07@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> <4alf4s$j1h@madeline.INS.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: risner@stdio.com NNTP-Posting-Host: os2 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10542 comp.unix.advocacy:12236 gns2@po.CWRU.Edu (Gabriel N. Schaffer) writes: >>>Ah, but since NT scaled at 100% and UW at only 80%, you need only add a few >>>more CPUs to make NT much faster than the rest. In case you don't get what >>>I'm saying here, any test which shows 100% scaling is severely flawed > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>100% scaleable? Wasn't that mentioned under 'impossible' in the OS concepts >>lectures I've heard? >>Or have I missed some reference/comment of yours? > >Perhaps you missed where I said the test must have been severly flawed. Perhaps you can explain to me how you think the test was flawed? Also, could you please tell me where you got the 100% scaled and 80% scaled values? I did not quote them, and I must be blind, because I can't find them in the article... >Not that I've heard. The OS would have had to have worked on their test >platform too, though. I think it was a Compaq. FreeBSD had talk of patches for SMP, but I never looked for them or used them. The Compaq, to the best of my knowledge, is Collorroly(sp?) compatiable SMP. They have a lock on the intel market, since the vast majority of SMP x86 machines are based on their methods. We support Everex MP boxes based on this standard. We also sell Compaq SMP, but both machine run SCO unix and I have never tested booting *BSD on them. The only UN*X which NEEDS special documentation is LINUX! Long live V7; Skip Solaris 2.x; FreeBSD IS the PC UN*X