\begin{Scott Howard}
The real benefit of multi-proc machines is when you're running multiple
CPU intensive processes, or when you're running multi-threaded processes.
and with the way unix is designed, most tasks are made up of multiple
processes. so unix adapts to smp very well (unlike the
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i am hoping to get a new MB and cpu soon which will be cool but any
recomendations etc..
i am thinking aroung a PIII 500-800 or so hopefully.. or would an AMD be
better. I am not looking for bleading edge so the latest stats from
tomshardware dont really help so
Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
iirc, linux (at least 2.2) does *not* spread threads around on to
separate cpus.
Nope, threads on Linux are just normal processes that happen to share things
with each other. So they will get run on multiple CPU's (if you have them :).
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