VAX 6000-460 booting saga continues ...

From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion_at_uranium.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri Jan 11 18:07:55 2002

probably had a lot to do with the workload; this machine was used as a
shell machine and had a heavy mail and netnews load, lots of interactive
io, lots of processes.. i can imagine that the smp mode spent a lot of
time in that kind of workload in spin-locks.. but it is a second-hand
information source, as i wasnt myself there at the time..

isildur

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> >
> > processor mode after they discovered it was actually faster than running on
> > both processors... so, ymmv. but yes, ultrix does do SMP.
> >
> That's really not true :-) I have a running 8800 here, and while it was
> working as ftp server it was easily diagnosed to give very close to the
> double capacity when the second CPU was turned on. I'd say that the
> Ultrix SMP implementation works very well for such use.
>
> -- Ragge
>
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