On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 03:54:06PM -0600, Tim Damon wrote:
> How can I view the performance of each CPU in a dual P166MMX system? The
> problem is this: I have installed 2 P166MMX and the BiOS recognizes them
> and Linux (RedHat 6.0) recognizes them, but when I execute 2 time intensive
> processes, Linux does not seem to be balancing the load on both processors.
> Isn't Linux supposed to load both processors? The processes are not written
> multi-threaded and I do not have the source to make the alterations. Any
> information would be very helpful.
Memory access is already a real bottle-neck for all computations.
Pentiums have only small L1 caches and a slow (= 66MHz) interface to
the L2 cache. Very probably both of your CPUs also have to share the
L2 which makes it even slower.
CPUs with separate fast L2 caches will give much better SMP
performance. That means PII or PIII (probably Xeon) if you want Intel.
Celerons have an even faster L2 cache but it's smaller. Judge
yourself.
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