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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.alias.net!myriad!mylinuxbox!suck!netcom.com!stephenk From: stephenk@netcom.com (Stephen Knilans) Subject: Re: Dual Pentium MotherBoard. Message-ID: <stephenkDLnvDJ.JzM@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <44735j$7qo@kappa.usc.edu> <44evmi$s0p@park.uvsc.edu> <4dvm3l$ia3@ladystrange.bluehorizon.nl> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 01:12:54 GMT Lines: 34 Sender: stephenk@netcom14.netcom.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips:51105 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems:25961 comp.os.linux.hardware:27666 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:12733 In article <4dvm3l$ia3@ladystrange.bluehorizon.nl> pascal@scylla@ramoth.xs4all.nl (Pascal van Dam) writes: >Terry Lambert (terry@cs.weber.edu) wrote: >: lamb@kappa.usc.edu (Mathew J. Lamb) wrote: >: ] > >: I recommend ASUS boards. I would stay away from Intel OEM >: product division boards because of their handling of PCI Interrupt >: assignment (while technically allowed by the spec, they are >: terrifically inefficient). Gee, I read that Triton tends to be 30% more efficient than many others! >: Note that you will not benefit from the multiple processors in >: the current or short term projected releases for BSD or Linux. HUH? WHY NOT? Why would they have SMP support, and state at one point that performance suffered due to coarse locking, if the efficiency of multiple processors was ZERO? >Looking at the current developers release kernel, SMP makes a fair chance >to hit the stable 1.4 release (due out soon) in some primal way.. > ************************** BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT ************************** It has ALREADY hit, and most bugs supposedly have been worked out. It is supposed to support up to 16 processors, and has finer locking. Steve