[geeks] w00t! AlphaServer SMP goodness

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Fri Nov 1 13:16:56 CST 2002


On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 01:52 PM, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
>>   I've had many long painful nights caused by pretending that FreeBSD 
>> isn't an Intel-only OS.
>
> Recently? What sort of problems?

   Not recently, no...admittedly it was about 2.5yrs ago.  There were 
instabilities (unexplained crashes), severe network throughput 
problems, and terrible performance with some programs due to 
Alpha-specific alignment fixup issues.

         -Dave

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