On Saturday 09 February 2002 16:14, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
On 9 Feb 2002, Rick Francis wrote:
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.