Joey, A single program will NOT use both cpus. BUt, in a multiuser environment, you have alot more than 1 program running. The multiple CPUs will definately share the load.
Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Joey Officer wrote: > Regarding this matter, I was reading over the SMP FAQ/HOW-TO and one of the > things that was talked about was not being able to automagically thread user > space programs. I'm not a programmer, but I would assume that most of the > applications that the general public uses is not optimized for SMP machines. > The linux kernel is/can be, but concerning the X server, is XFree86 > optimized for use in a multiprocessor machine to allow for the extra work? > Also, how about the office applications, are they written for use in a > multi-user enviroment. I guess what I'm really asking, is there a > performance increase when using a multiprocessor machine? Is the code > optimized to use both processors? > > joey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim > Wildman > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 8:31 AM > To: Romain Surleau > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Dual CPU > > > The installation/boot process should detect the dual cpu's and just > work. You will probably be given the choice (by Grub) of 2 kernels to > boot, one with 'smp' and one without. Take the smp one, that's for > multiprocessors. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jim Wildman, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rossberry.com > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Romain Surleau wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I have now tested ltsp on a few stations with happyness, and would > > like to install it completely in my department. > > My question is : is there something special to do if my server has > > two CPUs ? Is it a good idea to do this on that machine (dual PIII > > 550 Mhz) ? > > > > Thanks. > > Romain Surleau > > Centre de Langues - Université de Bourgogne > > http://nemo.u-bourgogne.fr/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > > > Sponsored by: > > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Sponsored by: > ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > -- _______________________________________________________________ Sponsored by: ThinkGeek at http://www.ThinkGeek.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
