Stephan Grupp wrote: > I have a Dell workstation with 2 processors (quad Xeons, total 8 cores, > 4GB of RAM). Empirically, I have found that the "breakeven" point is 5 > instances of Prime 95 - if I go past 5 instances, I lose so much > iteration time on all running instances that my total throughput drops. >
the bottleneck is likely memory bus bandwidth. 8 instances of prime95 hammering on your memory system is a LOT of accesses/second... _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
