As an AMD-er, Paul Krizak sounds rightly proud of the new Opteron 6000 "Magny-Cours" 12-core processors supported by the new RHEL5.5. However, it occurs to me there are quite a few old-time one-dimensional GNU utilities that are becoming cumbersome and largely obsolete in the face of accelerating numbers of cores.
One example that comes immediately to mind is 'top'. Here at the house my three-years-old server has a pair of dual-core Opterons. Many of top's entries appear in groups of four xxxx/0 thru xxxx/3, filling up the visible page with repetitive entries. Servers with up to 48 cores are going to need a top-ng that sorts processes by core and displays them, perhaps, in multiple-tab format with one tab for each core. Just something to be thinking about... --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
