Help clear up a misconception about SMP systems

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:29:09 -0400 (EDT)


Hi guys,

Can you help clear up a misconception about SMP that I have at the
moment?

When two or more processors come into play, what is the increase rate of
processing over a single processor? Is does it works out as 100% increase
over that of a single processor or is it limited by other factors such as
caching, disk i/o or whatever?

I'm guessing it's a 100% increase.

Cheers,
Alex.

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