[rescue] FSCKing OpenBSD!

[Brian Hechinger]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:37:39AM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > If you've got two CPUs burning current on your motherboard it seems the
> > FreeBSD SMP is almost always better (in terms of increasing overall
> > system throughput under general computing loads) than no SMP.  On the
> > other hand people have complained of Linux SMP actually causing their
> > machines to have lower overall throughput, though I don't know exactly
> > what kinds of computing loads they were trying to push through....
> 
> The only times I've heard of people complaining about that were when they
> were using systems like dual pentium classics, which where pretty back
> about caching in SMP, among other things.

dual 750Mhz PIII, Linux, Coldfusion.  i saw this behavior.  and these are not
"classic" pentiums.  to be fair this was about a year and a half ago now.  i
don't have any idea what current linux is like.

-brian