> 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.
>
This argument has a drawback that when things do improve your board may
not actually be able to use them. And the same board will cost a lot less
at the time you'll be able to use the improvements.
On the other hand two processors are a good thing to have - and a lot of
people are using dual cpu systems right now.
Vladimir Dergachev
>
>
> 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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