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Re: Linux & Multiple processing?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Wed Jun 12 04:52:02 1996

Date: 	Wed, 12 Jun 1996 01:53:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <dm@neteng.engr.sgi.com>
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606111454.HAA03671@neteng.engr.sgi.com>

On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, David S. Miller wrote:

>    Really though how is the performance compared to a single CPU machine of the
>    same series?
> 
> Can you say 3 minute complete kernel builds?

Sure.  I've seen 7 minute "make zImage"'s on P100's.  I was hoping to try 
dual on a new Tomcat II...but everything I've read tells me the system 
will crash hard if I try SMP with it :(


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