>I have seen a case of a system with 2xP2/400 CPU's and maxed out with
>RAM perform faster on a UP kernel than an SMP one, so such is possible
Maybe you should run `make -j80 zlilo' instead of `make zlilo' ;). Do you
see my point?
If you run only one task the performances theorically should be the
_same_.
With the difference that in smp a kernel you have the spinlock overhead,
but in the up kernel all irqs are run over the current task.
Andrea Arcangeli
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