For some applications I know of , it seems the implementation of the application itself proves to show better performance in some Less significant os'es . It isn't a real smp os support issue but more of programming skills
-----Original Message----- From: Shachar Shemesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 06:33 AM To: Orna Agmon Cc: Adir Abraham; Baruch Shpirer; 'Linux-IL'; 'Micha Feigin'; 'Oded Arbel' Subject: Re: [OT?] New Computer Orna Agmon wrote: >On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Adir Abraham wrote: > > >>Yes. Hyperthreading works fine in Linux (2.4.x) and it works as if you >>had two processors. Actually, Linux doesn't mind about it, because it >>really looks for Linux as if you had two processors. It starts from >>the BIOS >> >> > >Not exactly, from the performance point of view. It depends on what you >want to do with your machine. For some applications, hyper-threading >might hurt the performance. > > But is that a Linux specific problem? Will another OS under the same circumstances not suffer from performance penalties? Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
