Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:02:07 +0400 | From | Samium Gromoff <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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> > It's called asymptotic behavior. After a while you can look at the graph > > and see that more CPUs on the same memory doesn't make sense. It hasn't > > made sense for a decade, what makes anyone think that is changing? > > It didnt make sense two decades ago either, the VAX 8300 could be made to > go 6way and it stopped going faster around the third processor added.
It doesn`t dismiss the increasing disbalance between cpu/memory speeds, which is way more fundamental than the possible technical glitches with experimental SMP on VAXes.
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