Re: dual pentium

Alec Smith (sweetin@ix.netcom.com)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:40:49 -0500 (EST)


And you can count on SMP being improved as the versions go on. Scalability
is a goal for the continuing development of Linux. Therefore, getting a
dual pentium isn't a bad investment.

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > the idea now is to get a dual processor pentium.
>
> Dual pentium or dual PII - a dual pentium is junk nowdays
>
> > my question is this - how well supported is this under linux?
> > is it stable? and also does the kernel make any effort to
> > parallelize across both processors or does it just multi-task across
> > them?
>
> It balances processes across them. In 2.2 it also runs some kernel work
> spread across both processors
>
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