On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Joe wrote:
> Thanks all,
> I have been informed that there is SMP support on Sparc and
> Alpha, but no one has mentioned any performace boosts from this.
[...]
> Does anyone running an SMP Alpha or Sparc Linux Server?
I do with Sparc on SS10 ;-)
Really SMP on sparc boost a lot.... The bad thing is that the port of
glibc on sparc is not really mature.... ;-( So I've got two way : "wait,
luke... and something else..." or "develop luke !"...
I choose the first way since I don't think I am good enougth to develop...
But Linux on sparc smp rocks !
The main advantage of L/Sparc/SMP is it can support any CPU supported on
the mbus, not like Solaris 7 which need CPU with Supercache (the Z55
series of standard mbus cpu, not the Z50/51/52) ;-)
I didn't try some mixtures of z55 and lower cpu like z50 and/or with some
ROSS accelerators, but I've heard this really give some speed to the sparc
;-)
/Xavier
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