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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!usenet From: "Michael C. Cambria" <cambria> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Symmetric Multi-Processing Date: 28 Apr 1996 15:09:23 GMT Organization: Systems & Communications Sciences, Inc. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <4m01n3$t88@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> References: <3180D16D.41C6@wcom.com> <31827FD0.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> <31829E21.46253B04@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: snads.lkg.dec.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1 (X11; I; OSF1 V3.2 alpha) X-URL: news:31829E21.46253B04@lambert.org Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >] >] Lance Heller wrote: >] > I have an application requiring multiple cpu's and would like to use >] > FreeBSD if it supports symmetric multi-processing. Does it? >] >] It's limping along on two processors at a couple of places, >] but nothing I'd consider even close to production quality >] yet! If you're interested in gettting in on the ground floor, >] as it were, and possibly helping to *make* this a production >] quality enhancement, please contact our SMP project coordinator >] - Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>. From a user point of view, how does FreeBSD provide SMP from _an_ application (or does it)? I'm interested in pthreads. I'll settle for Draft 4, but obvioulsy like the actual standard interface. > >Be aware that Jordan's idea of what constitutes "production >quality" is seriously biased... he's a release manager, and >has higher standards than most of us (hell, he has higher >standards than most release managers 8-) 8-)). If pthreads is available, and makes use of SMP, in my case, I'll start my work RSN and wait for the SMP to meet everyones "production quality". I don't even have an SMP machine at my complete disposal yet. Will the SMP code (and of course, pthreads) run on a single CPU FreeBSD system? Thanks, Mike -- Michael C. Cambria Phone: 617 542 7060 Systems & Communications Sciences Fax: 617 338 7243 3 Hanson St. Suite 2 Internet: cambria@world.std.com Boston, Ma. 02118 CompuServe: 71552,2531