[ On Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 16:42:57 (+0100), Havard Eidnes wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: MP?
>
> > Does any Alpha systems run MP yet?
> 
> Yes.  I have a cs20 which at the moment runs 1.6ZG from Dec 8 2003.
> When it's not doing builds, it mostly runs setiathome on both CPUs,
> and for that workload it seems to be pretty stable.

The way you have worded that last sentence suggests it's not as stable
when doing builds.

Can you do a full build using both CPUs with a -current kernel without
experiencing any lockups or panics?  How about if there's a good bit of
NFS traffic also occuring (e.g. with sources on NFS)?

I certainly can't get very far with netbsd-1-6 on my 4000.  :-(

(though when it will run, such as when building a kernel for the second
time after everything's in the cache, the build runs almost exactly
twice as fast on two CPUs!  ;-)

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