Hi,
I'm running mprime (v19) on a dual-processor box (RH 6.0, very basic, no
graphical interface at installed) and am curious about the hit others take
when moving from using one to two processors. (People running duals under
NT are also welcomed to respond!)
If I run a single instance of mprime, I get LL iteration times on exponents
near 8,200,000 of about .220. If I run two instances of mprime, each gets
iteration times of around .245. I expected some hit, but I have no idea if
that is too big of a hit or not. Curiously, I did notice that when the box
was doing some factoring to 64 bits, it didn't seem to make any difference
in the factoring times whether I had one or two processors crunching.
In case it matters, the box contains 2 Celeron 466 processors on an Abit
BP6 board. Anyone looking for a big speed bump at low cost, try out a
combo like this!
Thanks in advance,
Kel
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