On the subject of perforance... does PPC offer any advantages in the area of context switching (over various x86 implementations)? is there a good comparison of processors (benchmark) site that lists L1 cache(s) sizes L2 cache sizes, speeds, association schemes and other processor charatracteristics in addition to the part number or brand name and speeds? I ask because I'm shopping for a new laptop and past experience (purely subjective) is that I'm much happier with larger L1 program and instruction caches than these blazing clock numbers. This, and the SPARC processors seem to handle a large number of processes better than the intel for a given clock speed... Not that I expect to find a price/performance competitive notebook with SPARC :-)
-Bob On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Warren Togami wrote: > Randall Oshita wrote: > > Where can I check in 7.3 to see if its using HT? > > Randall > > > > If your hardware and kernel properly supports hyperthreading, then you > would actually see what appears like multiple processors in "top" and > other system monitors, but it is actually your one Pentium4 or Xeon > processor.