On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:01:11PM -0800, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:29 AM, John Oliver wrote: > >>Run multiple Linux kernel compiles on a standard x86 box. The > >>performance degrades much faster than one would expect given the > >>processor and disk utilization. > > > >??? At the same time??? Never heard of that. And can't see how > >switching between kernels is going to "degrade performance". > > You're missing the point. > > At the same time, start a kernel compile in each of, say, 10 kernel > source trees on the same box. That will show you what can happen on a > development machine when 10 developers all decide to build their > projects at the same time, in an extreme case.
I missed the word "compiles" and parsed the sentence as "Run multiple Linux kernel instances on a standard x86 box" Obviously, that threw me for quite a loop... :-) -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
