On Tuesday 09 January 2001 08:17 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I'd be real interested in knowing about this too cause I've been
> toying with the same idea of building a dual processor system. Linux
> is all I run anymore. I'd be more concerned as to how the kernel
> would react to such a situation more then some of the apps on that
> system. I can't imagine how'd they'd really care whether there were 1
> or 10 processor.
Well, i've never run SMP. From what I understand, a multi processor
system has no problems running software written for single proccessor
systems, but multi cpu systems won't run 'em any faster/better either.
The application has to be specifically written and compiled to take
advantage of multi proccessors ... and they're few and far between on
most all desktop systems.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
