[SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, March 30, 2001 at 16:09:30 (-0500), Joshua D. Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...
>
> Well, I was under the impression that Linus' comments were to be
> interpreted as meaning that it was fine for 2way SMP, but not as good as
> possible on 4, 8, or 16 way SMP.

That could very well be (but then with 2-way SMP you don't really need
fine-grained locking!  :-).  like I say, I'm not a Linux user.

> I can't really comment too much on network performance though since that
> isn't my area of specialty.  Heck, I'm still running 10mbit everywhere in
> my house rather than 100mbit.  I can tell you that dual processors get
> twice the performance on kernel compiles.  I've also found that some
> programs (like WindowMaker) can't be compiled using the -j2 flag.  Bummer.

The whole NetBSD build is supposed to work with any '-j' that's not too
big to fill up your swap space.

Of course even on a single processor that's any much faster than the
secondary storage it uses will benefit from up to '-j4'.  I've just not
yet been brave enough to try it.....  :-)

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