[linux-help] Re: Dual processors

[Lowell Premer <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

To a certain extent, this was the point to ny (regretably smart-assed 
sounding) reply below; applications have to be written especially to take 
advantage of dual-or-greater proceesing IIRC...I was wondering which of 
the software being used in your case was dual-processor friendly...

On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Anne McCadden wrote:

> 
> I am running 3 sessions of Seti at the same time, use the pc to check my 
> email, surf the web, download songs, have apache & mysql daemons in the 
> background on a single 1.4 AMD thunderbird without any problems.  I am 
> also one of the top seti producers at 95.5+ percentile of all the seti 
> contributors.  I must admit that I shutdown seti, apache, & mysql if I 
> want to play Quake 3 with the new nVidia & openGL drivers.  Linux has 
> much superior memory & resource management to the cometitor and at a 
> much better price.  I'm sold on it.  I'm still trying to decide if I 
> want to stay with RedHat or switch to Suse.  I have found more 
> documentation for RedHat.  ~Anne
> 
> Wayne White wrote:
> 
> >For example, running two instances of Setiathome, running
> >X, surfing the web and ripping/recording cds. All at once,
> >without a burp one. I can easily have more concurrent processor
> >activity occurring with Linux than with Windoze on the
> >same machine
> >
> >Perhaps not the greatest example, but I've been very pleased
> >with Linux and SMP.
> >
> >wayne
> >
> >At 09:49 AM 8/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >>For example?
> >>
> >>>My experience is that SMP really makes Linux multitasking
> >>>shine brightly.
> >>>
> >>>wayne
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