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SubjectRe: Linux can't stay up for more than an hour?
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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