Re: Not to beat a dead horse, but ...

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014, andrew clarke wrote:

> On Sun 2014-06-08 20:58:36 UTC+0200, Andreas Nilsson ([e-mail]) wrote:
>
>>> The party line seems to be, "Well, everybody knows SCHED_ULE sucks
>>> on uniprocessors."  Hello?  Not everybody has upgraded to multiple
>>> core or hyperthreaded processors yet.  Do we really want to write
>>> off every uniprocessor piece of hardware out here?
>>>
>> Yes? Can you even buy a system today that is uniprocessor? My phone is
>> a dual core thing, and it got written of because of its "meagre"
>> hardware. Top of the line phones has 8 cores. So, seriously, what
>> non-ancient system have you acquired that is uniprocessor? Please
>> include links for available hardware for laptops, desktops or servers.
>
> Don't discount virtual machines, where a FreeBSD guest OS might be
> configured to use only one of the host system's CPUs.

People are also using FreeBSD on small embedded systems, both
x86 and non-x86 based.  All the world is not a multiprocessor
x86 system.

   http://www.diamondsystems.com/products/sbcs.php

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DE
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