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Re: SMP systems, XING streaming video
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L. Martin)
Thu Nov 28 21:37:25 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:35:38 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961128211315.5100B-100000@ninja.zedalis.com>
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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
[...]
> [...] You guys
> can fight out what SMP really means, but in the real world if the second
> processor can't handle ANY i/o then it doesn't do any good in internet
> servers etc. Might as well just get a faster Pentium or RISC processor.
In my experience, any pentium can keep the I/O at full bandwidth, I don't
see have giving the second processor the ability to perform I/O will help.
Even on the newest boards isn't the PCI bus limited to 66 Mhz???
David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
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