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Re: AMD64 X2 questions



On 08/25/07 01:22:50PM +0200, Michael wrote:
> 
> Thanks Lennart, thanks Jim, for the good points.
> I think i can accept the matter of facts ;) 
> 
> It's generally a great fun to read your postings. 
> Just let me say thx here for sharing your insight.
> That should apply to all those real freaks on this list.
> 
> kr micha
> 
> 
> ps. I imagine quadcore (and beyond) may be able to solve what appears a little 'optical imbalance'.
> I would be interested to know if linux has specific schedulers for these archs but it's probably getting offtopic - i think quadcore is still rare at least in PC world yet.
> 

What is an 'optical imbalance'? 

No, Linux only has 1 CPU scheduler for all arches no matter how many CPUs
are there. You can use cpusets to constrain processes to a specific set of
memory and processors but they're never used automatically.

Jim.



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