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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!nickkral From: nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Multi-Processor Support for FreeBSD Date: 25 Feb 1996 02:14:00 GMT Organization: Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department, University of California at Berkeley Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4gogl8$qg7@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4gl985$8vn@news1.usa.pipeline.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: america.cs.berkeley.edu In article <4gl985$8vn@news1.usa.pipeline.com>, Rick Windham <dr_techno@usa.pipeline.com> wrote: >I've seen a couple of nice two processor Pentium PCI mother-boards >available and would like to take advantage of them. If there is anyone >currently working on this please send me some mail so I can get involved. If your looking for a FreeBSD only solution, then you should read some of the other followups to your question. However, if you are just looking for an operating system to use on a multiprocessor pentium board, then I suggest that you take a look at Linux. Linux has had support for multiple processors for more than half a year now. There are mailing lists setup for discussion regarding SMP Linux. To subscribe, send e-mail "majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu". In the body of the message, put "subscribe linux-smp". A lot of people are running Linux SMP, and are reporting good results. I recommend you check out the linux-smp mailing list for more details. Other solutions to your question include Win NT and some other commercial UNIXs. (cc'd to author) Take care, -- Nick Kralevich nickkral@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu