On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:18:41PM +0000, Jonathan Peterson wrote: > Anyone using Linux on anything with lots of CPU's? Attempt to do > searches for 'linux smp' on google tends to get me documents last > updated in 1997.
IIRC, Linus is quite specific in his intention that linux serve the lower-end "market" where making linux efficient on 2 processors is the goal. More procs is theoretically interesting but practically does not have a significant userbase. Linux is not aiming at competition with supercomputers. It's been a while since I read kernel traffic but I think the scheduler is undergoing some work to help with more CPUs anyway though. I'd concur with Steve on NUMA development. Paul -- Paul Makepeace ....................................... http://paulm.com/ "What is the thing I'm thinking about now? There is no spoon." -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/
