He means PC's in which CPU speed is not the limiting factor.  If your CPU's
are fast enough, then memory/bus speed could be the limiting factor, and 2.0
SMP handles this less efficiently than 2.1.

(at least that's what I think he was trying to say :)

--Adam
-----Original Message-----
From: Douglas Ridgway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, November 07, 1998 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: 2.0.36 anyone?




On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Mark Hahn wrote:

> any 2.0 SMP box that is not strictly cpu-bound is basically crippled.

Stupid question: if a machine is not CPU bound, what is the purpose of
adding CPUs?






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