On Wednesday 10 January 2001 10:53, you wrote:
> FWIW...
>
> I run 7.2 on a dual processor system here. I use the SMP kernel. No
> problems. Everything seems to run just fine.
>
> I'm not sure what problems with software the original poster referred
> to... Perhaps I'm not running with software that has problems with SMP?
>
> Holly
>
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being
> > worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful."
> >
> > Linus Torvalds
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>REPLY BELOW<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001 David spake passionately saying:
> > > I was thinkg about building a dual processor PC using mandrake 7.2 as
> > > this should not be a problem ...however i read somewhere that even
> > > though the operating system might be Ok with dual processors some of
> > > the software that runs on it might not. Is this the case or not ??? as
> > > there would be no point in going down this road if i need to worry
> > > about every new piece of software i got..
> > > David
Most software is processor ignorant. The software just starts threads via
the operating system and I would suspect most KDE and GNOME software IS
mutli-threaded. The operating system handles the scheduling of the threads
against the number of processors it has to work with. Even if the software
you are using is NOT multi-threaded, if you doing more than one thing at a
time the second processor can/will help you out.
--
Mike Mattix
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