Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 20:04 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 13:04 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
> > Multiple cores make sense for the big servers where there are many
> > simulates unblocked threads of execution.
> >
> > For a desktop machine where there is, for the most part, 'just you'
> > running the foreground task, they offer little advantage.
>
> Have you run bzip2 lately? I'm pretty glad that I have more than one
> core, so that I can still so something else on my machine while that is
> running.
>
> I also like to rip the movies I buy so I can put them on my media center
> machine - I could start that and then not use my machine at all for
> about 10 hours while that is running, or I could use my other cores.
>
> And this is not counting the innumerable applications and games that can
> use multiple cores internally.

I know for sure, that apache2 (who can refork dozens of times) does
spread the load...
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