[linux-help] Re: Dual processors

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

Most of the multi-proccessor friendly apps are going to be server apps, 
ie, relational databases, multi-user access of the file system (RAID), 
and OS systems that can recognize more than one processor, UNIX, linux, 
Win2k.  Most high-end video apps, ie GIMP and photoshop, especially when 
using intensive rendering and animations are also designed to use more 
than one processor.

It's great to have a high-end mobo and even better to have apps and 
processes that can use the great features of the hardware.  ~Anne

Lowell Premer wrote:

>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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