Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:40:49 -0500 (EST) | From | Alec Smith <> | Subject | Re: dual pentium |
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And you can count on SMP being improved as the versions go on. Scalability is a goal for the continuing development of Linux. Therefore, getting a dual pentium isn't a bad investment.
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> > the idea now is to get a dual processor pentium. > > Dual pentium or dual PII - a dual pentium is junk nowdays > > > my question is this - how well supported is this under linux? > > is it stable? and also does the kernel make any effort to > > parallelize across both processors or does it just multi-task across > > them? > > It balances processes across them. In 2.2 it also runs some kernel work > spread across both processors > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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