Re: Jaguar on 9600/200MP...?

[Simon Brown]

There is some conjecture as to if you really do get twice the grunt 
with duals or even 4x grunt with the Daystar genisis machines, A twin 
processor 604e, G4 or even G5 box are not twice as quick as the 
respective single processor versions of same machine, so in some 
context it would be nice to be able to control how a process is handled 
and by what processor. Whilst OSX is multithreading, preemptive etc the 
background tasks still do affect the foreground tasks, yes even on my 
G5 do I see it (I've got a Gig so it's not swap disk activity either) 
so why not be able to allocate the system processes and say mail, 
browsing or even other background tasks  to one processor and then 
leave the entire second processor for anything happening in the 
foreground and what ever slack is left in first processor to be used as 
needed if available.

Sorry this discussion is getting a little off topic but it looks like 
we are all up for some healthy debate?

Simon
On 05/11/2004, at 10:24 AM, Peter da Silva wrote:
What would be good is if you could allocate one processor to system
tasks and the other to application tasks, similar to the way the
original Radius Rockets were able to be configured.
Not under OS X it wouldn't be. :)
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