On Wednesday 10 January 2001 02:48 pm, abe wrote:
> if you are running an SMP mandrake system will recompiling the
> software you use help it to use the SMP capabilities of the machine
> or not?
No, the software has to be written by the developer(s) to take
advantage of SMP. I believe a Google on 'SMP' will shed more light on
the subject than I ever could. I've only looked into it enough to form
the opinion that it's a waste on a user-desktop system, there's very
little mainstream software that uses SMP. In situations where it could
be useful, the $$'s are prob'ly better spent building a better single
proccessor system .... and if you really need SMP, then you prob'ly
ought'a be lookin into clustering also. YMMV ;)
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
>
> You all have me curious now. My girlfriend wants a dual T-Bird
> system for her birthday this summer. This will be a strictly
> mandrake machine.
>
>
> Abe
>
> Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 January 2001 08:17 pm, Mark Weaver wrote:
> > > I'd be real interested in knowing about this too cause I've been
> > > toying with the same idea of building a dual processor system.
> > > Linux is all I run anymore. I'd be more concerned as to how the
> > > kernel would react to such a situation more then some of the apps
> > > on that system. I can't imagine how'd they'd really care whether
> > > there were 1 or 10 processor.
> >
> > Well, i've never run SMP. From what I understand, a multi
> > processor system has no problems running software written for
> > single proccessor systems, but multi cpu systems won't run 'em any
> > faster/better either. The application has to be specifically
> > written and compiled to take advantage of multi proccessors ...
> > and they're few and far between on most all desktop systems.
> > --
> > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
