He means PC's in which CPU speed is not the limiting factor. If your CPU's
are fast enough, then memory/bus speed could be the limiting factor, and 2.0
SMP handles this less efficiently than 2.1.
(at least that's what I think he was trying to say :)
--Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Ridgway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: 2.0.36 anyone?
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Mark Hahn wrote:
> any 2.0 SMP box that is not strictly cpu-bound is basically crippled.
Stupid question: if a machine is not CPU bound, what is the purpose of
adding CPUs?