fp on feebsd

[Walter Vaughan]

Enrique Arredondo wrote:

> Do you know if I install the freebsd ver 5.13 on my server I can use my 
> second processor ? Would filepro for SCO unix work with no modifications ?
> 
> Thanks

If you send fpTech a small fee (25%? IIRC), they'll send you a licensed
native freeBSD version of filePro. That version will run quite happy on
a dual processor system and appears to be happy if you enable
hyperthreading as well and give yourself 4 virtual processors.

As Bill stated, you will want to run 4.10-Release FreeBSD as your OS.
The thing about freeBSD is that 4.10 will probably stay current with
security errata till at least the 2010's. My guess is that a huge
percentage of the web hosting companies in the world today will be
running 4.11 or later years from now.

On linux, a dual processor system with SCO binaries filePro seems to
lock on to one CPU, while on FreeBSD with native binaries, filePro
binaries have no qualms about jumping from one CPU to the other. I have
not tested native FreeBSD filePro binaries on a dual processor
freeBSD-5.3, which is supposed to be the fastest SMP *nix when finished.

So to answer your second question... Yes if you are talking about your
application (data, processing tables), or I'm guessing not if you want
to run native SCO version of *clerk and *report programs on freeBSD
(things that count number of concurrent users typically failed).
--
Walter