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... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org