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FreeBSD Development Status Report

Posted by michael on from the i-think-i-can dept.

jorhan writes "The FreeBSD Development Status Report covering February to April 2002 came out yesterday (May 18th). Finding it from the FreeBSD home page takes a few clicks, but here is a shortcut. With all of the noise about resigning core members and the upcoming core election, it's nice to see the real work just chugs along."

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  1. SMPng. by saintlupus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The SMPng project has been picking up steam in the last few months thankfully.

    Woo-hoo! Maybe it's time to pick up that second processor for my dual-capable PPro.

    Mmmmm... SMPlicious.

    --saint

    (Slow Down Cowboy. Hey, Taco, eat my ass, okay? There, now I'm a troll, deserving of this ineffectual lameness measure. Thanks.)

    1. Re:SMPng. by Clue4All · · Score: 4, Interesting

      FreeBSD has had MP capabilities for a long time. While not totally symmetric as Linux's, running two mp3 encoding processes will take you no longer on FreeBSD than Linux (and quite possibly less time, depending). I've had a lot of bad experiences with Linux's SMP throwing tasks back and forth between two processors and unnecessarily running up CPU usage on task switching, and while I guess this is better than FreeBSD's existing MP capability, giving it no credit is foolish.

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