[rescue] Dual Processors and applications

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Tue May 7 13:11:43 CDT 2002


[ On Tuesday, May 7, 2002 at 12:30:18 (-0500), Brian Dunbar wrote: ]
> Subject: [rescue] Dual Processors and applications
>
> Scenario:
> A dual processor Unix box (sun or hp).  An application (CAD tool) that was
> not specifically optimized for dual processors.  Will the app take advantage
> of the dual processors?

If you're running it directly on the same workstation where you're
viewing it, then it sure as heck will help to have multiple processors!

That poor old Xserver has to get some cycles from somewhere....

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