From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:12:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:12:32 -0400 Received: from [209.234.73.40] ([209.234.73.40]:46858 "EHLO altus.drgw.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:12:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:11:23 -0500 From: Troy Benjegerdes To: Rick Hohensee Cc: jesse@cats-chateau.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The Joy of Forking Message-ID: <20010627191123.J8027@altus.drgw.net> In-Reply-To: <01062422482200.18805@tabby> <200106250803.EAA20874@smarty.smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106250803.EAA20874@smarty.smart.net>; from humbubba@smarty.smart.net on Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:03:54AM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:03:54AM -0400, Rick Hohensee wrote: > > > rtlinux by default > > > no SMP > > > SMP doesn't scale. If this fork comes, the smart maintainer > > > will take the non-SMP fork. > > > > Depends on platform and bus. From reports, it seems to scale just fine on > > non-intel systems. > > Big expensive systems. Non-desktop systems. Non-end-user systems. And > clustering will eat its lunch eventually anyway. You don't get much more end-user than a $2500 Dual Processor Mac G4. (And as soon as you say $2500 is a lot of money, I can probably find a dual CPU PentiumIII system for < $1000) We would be perfectly happy if you have the time and ability to maintain a fork that can do all of this, and those of us that have more than one CPU type will be perfectly happy to ignore it. -- Troy Benjegerdes | master of mispeeling | 'da hozer' | hozer@drgw.net -----"If this message isn't misspelled, I didn't write it" -- Me ----- "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shulz