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Re: Linux & Multiple processing?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miguel de Icaza)
Tue Jun 11 17:09:57 1996
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 14:12:14 -0500
From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: dm@neteng.engr.sgi.com
CC: kmb203@psu.edu, rowehrli@pixi.com, rene@universal.nl,
linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <199606111454.HAA03671@neteng.engr.sgi.com> (dm@neteng.engr.sgi.com)
dm@sgi.com said:
> > I've been running 4-way SMP under SparcLinux for months...
>
> But is it *fast* ? :)
>
> Really though how is the performance compared to a single CPU machine of the
> same series?
>
> Can you say 3 minute complete kernel builds?
A machine like that one with a single CPU takes about 20 minutes to
compile the kernel (keep in mind that it's 20 minutes under SunOS
against fast Linux/SPARC).
Miguel.
