On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 19:32, Doug McGarrett wrote:

I love the title of the message. I wonder how many readers remember the old DOS program that it refers to. Actually, it was before DOS, I think.

You can still have this experience, right on your SuSE Linux machine!! Not even a 'Net connection is needed. Fire up emacs. Type 'M-x dunnet' (that's 'Alt-x dunnet' if you're not into emacs-speak) and have at 'er. I could *never* get through it, even peeking at the darn source-code... :-( -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng., Member IEEE Technical University of B.C. - Research Lab Engineer mailto:gordon.pritchard@techbc.ca direct phone: 604-586-6186

That is what the SMP kernel is for. Jim 02/09/02 04:59:21 PM, "Rick Francis" wrote:

will suse professional v7.3 take advantage of multiple cpu's?

thanks.

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Hello, Alan. The installation process is very good at finding out what processors you have. It will automatically setup the correct SMP kernel for your system, at least with Intel CPUs. I haven't had the opportunity to test it with dual Athlon MPs yet, so I can't make any assertions for that platform. Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: alan@ibgames.com [mailto:alan@ibgames.com] Sent: 10 February 2002 06:32 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] suse and multiple processors Yes - but will the installation detect multiple processors and install the SMP kernal, or do you have to tell it? alan On 9 Feb 2002 at 17:06, James Bliss wrote:

That is what the SMP kernel is for.

Jim

02/09/02 04:59:21 PM, "Rick Francis" wrote:

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will suse professional v7.3 take advantage of multiple cpu's?

thanks.

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Yep. Two of my duallies here are running SuSE 7.3 Pro. One's got Pentium 233MMXs, the other's got PII-233s. However, these two machines have different kernels. The 7.3 installation will pick the correct kernel for you, but if you want to update the kernel with the RPMs from the SuSE FTP site, original Pentia need the k_psmp kernel, while PentiumPro and above use the k_smp kernel. What CPUs do you have ? How many ? Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Rick Francis [mailto:rfrancis@mindspring.com] Sent: 09 February 2002 22:59 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] suse and multiple processors will suse professional v7.3 take advantage of multiple cpu's? thanks. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com

On Sat, 2002-02-09 at 22:59, Rick Francis wrote:

will suse professional v7.3 take advantage of multiple cpu's?

Holy Smoke..... Is the Pope Catholic ? LOL I speak as a user of SuSE 7.3 Prof. on two dual-processor machines, both running : a) 2 X 1GHz PIII 100Mhz FSB Slot 1 b) 2 X 1GHz PIII 133Mhz FSB Socket 370 Enterprise-side, SuSE scales even higher, I think. -- Kemdi IN_SuSE_d Since 5.2 123792 of counter.li.org ICQ:112290572 ++++++++++++++++++++++++

On Saturday 09 February 2002 16:14, Karol Pietrzak wrote:

On 9 Feb 2002, Rick Francis wrote:

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will suse professional v7.3 take advantage of multiple cpu's?

Since all Linux distributions use the Linux kernel, the question is a general one and not a SuSE-specific. For Linux 2.4, two- way SMP is excellent, and four-way is supposedly the "sweet spot". I believe (don't quote this) Linux 2.4 scales up to 64 procs, but the performance is abysmal.

So, to answer your question, YES!

What's that about a sweet spot? I have a 4-way P-III running linux at the office, but it's no barn burner. Nor does Hyper-Threading take the place of real additional CPU's. Linux begins to look like a better deal, if Bill Gates says you must buy XP Server for such a box. Maybe MS have convinced themselves linux has no chance against a $900+ OS which has yet to appear in our lab? kernel 2.4.17 runs OK on dual Hyper-Threading CPU's (4 "logical" processors). make -j 4 does run faster H-T enabled, though nothing like 3 CPU's.