48 logical cpus, 64GB of ram, no wait states, and yet calibre64 is
using many cores, is this a test program?  In the real world, it would
be 1 core at 100% and the rest at 0.



On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Paul Krizak <[email protected]> wrote:
> In case you were wondering what it looks like (screenshot attached)
>
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> On 03/30/10 19:10, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
>>
>> As an AMD-er, Paul Krizak sounds rightly proud of the new Opteron 6000
>> "Magny-Cours" 12-core processors supported by the new RHEL5.5. However,
>> it occurs to me there are quite a few old-time one-dimensional GNU
>> utilities that are becoming cumbersome and largely obsolete in the face
>> of accelerating numbers of cores.
>>
>> One example that comes immediately to mind is 'top'. Here at the house
>> my three-years-old server has a pair of dual-core Opterons. Many of
>> top's entries appear in groups of four xxxx/0 thru xxxx/3, filling up
>> the visible page with repetitive entries. Servers with up to 48 cores
>> are going to need a top-ng that sorts processes by core and displays
>> them, perhaps, in multiple-tab format with one tab for each core.
>>
>> Just something to be thinking about...
>>
>> --Doc Savage
>>   Fairview Heights, IL
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