Re: performance discrepancy between UP and SMP

Chris Evans (chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Wed, 14 Jan 1998 13:25:54 +0000 (GMT)


On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:

> UP Machine: single pentium-II 266 w/128Mb 10ns SDRAM, linux 2.1.62
>
> SMP Machine: dual pentium-II 266 w/512Mb 10ns SDRAM, linux 2.1.77

Could this be an issue relating to failure to cache all the 512Mb RAM of
the SMP machine? (Probably not). Tried a SMP compiled kernel on a UP
machine?

Chris