I run FreeBSD 3.1 SMP on a dual 166 Pentium with 128 megs ram. I run two instances of SETI@home on it and can hardly tell much is going on while using Netscape or other apps.
When nothing else is going on seti runs both cpus at 95% or more. But with a nice value of 1 it smoothly gives up the cpu cycles going down to 40% or whatever.
I have run NT and Solaris on dual cpus and Solaris is the only one that runs as nicely. I am very impressed with FreeBSDs multi-tasking smoothness.
Re:SMP support? (Score:1)
When nothing else is going on seti runs both cpus at 95% or more. But with a nice value of 1 it smoothly gives up the cpu cycles going down to 40% or whatever.
I have run NT and Solaris on dual cpus and Solaris is the only one that runs as nicely. I am very impressed with FreeBSDs multi-tasking smoothness.