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Re: Linux & Multiple processing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Baker)
Sun Jun 9 15:16:37 1996
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 12:20:52 -0500
From: Dave Baker <dsb@greebo.onlinemagic.co.uk>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
pb90@columbia.edu wrote:
>I am wondering if the linux operating system takes advantage of computers
>with multiple processors!
>If yes would anyone know how many processors can Linux deal with at the
>same time?
>
>Any information welcome......Thank's
From what I heard, low-end multiprocessors are a bit of a waste anyway.
I understand linux CAN support them (don't know how many tho') but you're
better off getting a single processor thats n times faster, than n proc's
all running slower.
There was a thread about this on one of the redhat-lists, and the basis
conclusion (that I drew, at least) is it's hard enough keeping one
processor busy without having to worry about i/o bandwidthg
and such to keep n processors busy ...
$0.02
dave baker
