[rescue] Re MAKES. ME. SICK.-> scalability

[Zach Malone]

I stand corrected,
    I thought I had seen something about security and SMP in one of the
interviews posted on the OpenBSD site.  Sorry for the misinformation,
    Zach
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <patrick at zill.net>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Re MAKES. ME. SICK.-> scalability


> On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 07:16:20AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> > On June 19, Zach Malone wrote:
> > > As I understand it,
> > >     OpenBSD will not have SMP any time soon.  Supposedly it opens up
far too
> > > many security holes to have a second processor enabled.  This may
eventually
> > > be fixed, and as I am not on the dev team, I have no clue how long it
might
> > > take,
> >
> >   Uh-huh.  Now THAT is something that I'd like to see a good technical
> > description of.
>
> My understanding was that:
>
> 1.  If they do it, they will do it the right way.
> 2.  There are other more pressing needs such as device drivers.
> 3.  re: #1, they need to do it on multiple architectures
> 4.  They don't have a SMP guru on hand.
>
> ./patrick
>
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