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From: palowoda@netcom.com (Bob Palowoda)
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
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Ender Wiggin (mwwheatl@telepath.com) wrote:
: In article <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com>, Bryan Althaus <bry@netcom.com> wrote:
: >I always
: >here people say "Other than SMP .." as if it's trivial to have an OS
: >support SMP.  If it was so easy Linux and *BSD would have it.

: 	Current 1.3.x kernels of Linux *do* support SMP. :-)

The word "support" has very little meaning in the above statements.
Discribe how well these 1.3.x kernels with SMP run.  How many
of the Linux drivers are threaded?  What is the granularity of 
kernel locking?  

---Bob

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