Re: Linux and SMP

2003-11-13 Thread Dan Fruehauf
On Monday 10 November 2003 22:26, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:58:29PM +0200, Dan Fruehauf wrote: > > Evening, > > Recently i discovered that my machine (a dual p3 450MHz with > > 256mb of ram) is > > very slow. top says that somewhat like 30% of cpu cycles are being used

Re: Linux and SMP

2003-11-12 Thread Ehud Karni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:26:41 +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > i suspect that it might be the SMP support which is > > compiled into the kernel, mainly because when compiled with no SMP it runs > > just about fine, > > Uhm, when c

Re: Linux and SMP

2003-11-10 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:58:29PM +0200, Dan Fruehauf wrote: > Evening, > Recently i discovered that my machine (a dual p3 450MHz with > 256mb of ram) is > very slow. top says that somewhat like 30% of cpu cycles are being used by > the system level. That's a lot. What kind of activity

Linux and SMP

2003-11-10 Thread Dan Fruehauf
Evening, Recently i discovered that my machine (a dual p3 450MHz with 256mb of ram) is very slow. top says that somewhat like 30% of cpu cycles are being used by the system level. i suspect that it might be the SMP support which is compiled into the kernel, mainly because when compiled w