Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 17:38:23 08/31/03
In a unix system administration class today, the professor said that the SMP support in Linux isn't very good. He said it's okay if you're doing 2x or maybe 4x, but he said that anything higher than that and you should use something like Solaris, and gave the impression that Solaris was a very solid choice for an SMP machine. I was suprised that he said this, because (IIRC) Dr. Hyatt uses Redhat Linux, and he doesn't seem to think very highly of Sun, and he obviously knows a "little" about all things SMP ;-) I have a few questions in regards to how different operating systems compare in terms of SMP support. Which operating systems are preferred? Which operating systems should be avoided? How is Windows? How is FreeBSD? I heard Gian-Carlo saying something about FreeBSD not having good multithreaded support. If Linux has sub-par SMP support, will this be improved in kernel 2.6?
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