Hello all!
I've taken the plunge and picked up a pair of Celeron 400's and an Abit
BP6 board. This is my first foray into the wild yonders of SMP, so
forgive my naive questions.
I was under the impression that since the kernel and libc libraries
natively support SMP, applications would automatically make use of both
processors without intervention. I'm wondering whether I was incorrect.
As a test, I ripped an audio track from a CD and started 'notlame' (also
tested 'bladeenc' with similar results) to encode the wav file. Using
top, the encoding process never used more than 50% of CPU time. This
makes me think that it's only making use of one processor. Even using
'nice -19 <blah>' never yielded much more than 50% CPU.
Was I naive to think that applications "auto-magically" benefit from
SMP? Anyone know of an MP3 encoder that will make use of the second
processor?
Thanks for any tips and tricks!
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
