On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 19:58 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > actually the SMP "is" working, as in top shows 2 CPU's. but when i do > an emerge --sync CPU1 stays pegged at 99% and CPU0 stays below 1% the > entire time. this is a dual 200mhz U2 Sparc system, i was just > wondering if this was normal or is there something messed up in my > config?
AFAIK, certain operations can't use both CPU's because of the way they're written. rsync (used by emerge --sync) may be one. At least you'll use one cpu for rsync, and the other cpu for everything else you may be doing at the time, so you'll still get a performance advantage. > and sorry for posting this in the normal user list, i figured i would > get more responses here as i dont think this is specific to Sparc > hardware, but i could be wrong. No worries! I don't know what the "official" word is, but this list is more a general usage list, rather than gentoo specific issues. -- Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they claim they'll make you? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
