Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 May 1999 17:27:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Linux can't stay up for more than an hour? |
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On Sun, 9 May 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
>I have seen a case of a system with 2xP2/400 CPU's and maxed out with >RAM perform faster on a UP kernel than an SMP one, so such is possible
Maybe you should run `make -j80 zlilo' instead of `make zlilo' ;). Do you see my point?
If you run only one task the performances theorically should be the _same_.
With the difference that in smp a kernel you have the spinlock overhead, but in the up kernel all irqs are run over the current task.
Andrea Arcangeli
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