Joey,
app level threading is almost immaterial in multiuser environment.
the most important gain from smp is concurrent jobs processing - you are
not running an Xserver - you are running multiple Xservers. SMP is also
the simplest defense from a runaway process - you can still access the
machine. julius
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?
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