fp on feebsd

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Vaughan" <wvaughan at steelerubber.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: fp on feebsd


> 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
>
>
>

I installed the 5.3 just for testing purposes and it seems it's ready . I 
tried the SCO binary's and it fail catastrophically as expected (I couldn't 
resist not trying it). Is there a way of getting an evaluation version of 
filepro for FREEBSD so I try a couple of things before paying the big bucks 
?

How do you normally shutdown FREEBSD ? I tried "shutdown -g0 -y" but didn't 
like it. So I pressed CTRL-ALT-DEL and it did the forced shutdown 
automatically.