Re: smp, debian and me
On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 05:31, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 04:32:17PM -0700, G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote:
> > Subsequently, I've been following the threads concerning pulling down the
> > sources (apt-get -b source {package}) and building my own packages to insure
> > that all of my existing software has the ability of using SMP support.
>
> I'm fairly sure that 'SMP support' is meaningless for userspace
> software, ie everything but the kernel. Dual processors means that the
> kernel can run two processes at once, so if your software is
> multi-threaded (maybe), or you're running more than one program at once
> (all the time under Linux), you're taking advantage of the SMPness of
> your system.
If I heard that a userland program had 'SMP support' then I think I'd
presume that the program was aggressively threaded. And, of course,
the program must be written that way to begin with, so just recompiling
won't do a thing for SMP...
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