Re: New dad (again)..

Erik Andersen (andersen@inconnect.com)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 14:23:59 -0600 (MDT)


On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 kwr@kwr.hnv.com wrote:

> And lo, George saith unto me:
> > and think of another consequence of this ... now you actually have SMP
> > Linus ... :) ...
> No, that's asymmetric. It takes a multiple birth (twins at the very
> least) if you want support for Symmetric Multi Pooping. And then you
> have the usual "if one panics, the other panics" problems, plus you spend
> twice as much time flushing dirty buffers...
>
> Keith
>
>

The worst part is that these new models will take years to boot up.
You can try to boot them earlier, but they keep pulling their boots off.

-Erik

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