Re: Linux SMP
Philip Thiem <ptt@umr.edu> writes:
> I'm wonder, and perhap some you linux buffs could help. HOw great is the
> performance gain from SMP?
I run on a two processor pentium pro machine all of the time - for doing
development, "make -j [ something >1 ]" gives about double compilation
speed, as multiple gcc's get spawned onto the two processors.
Multi-CPU pentium machines (as opposed to PII or PPro) are not supposed to
see as much of a benefit, as the two processors share L2 cache.
Others have pointed out, too, that the 2.1.x performance is supposed to be
much better than 2.0.34. I'm running 2.1.104, and I'd say that I have
noticed a stellar difference. The performance I was used to under 2.0.34
was pretty impressive for the stuff I do, though - for a kernel bound job,
2.1.x might make a big difference.
Hopefully this is a useful answer :-)
Later,
Dale
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