fp on feebsd

[Bill Vermillion]

It was Mon, Sep 13 10:01 when Walter Vaughan said "Mia
kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj. And continued:

> 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.

And just this month verio.de announced they were moving all
their hosting to FreeBSD servers.  Verio is already running
250,000 servers, second in quantity to Yahoo's 275,000.

> 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.

That is good to know.

> 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.

Keep us posted on that.

> 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).

Bill
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