[linux-help] Re: Dual processors

[lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>]

I knew that photoshop was smp friendly, hence Apple's propensity for dp 
power macs and g3's/4's; didn't realize the gimp was that way too...

Koji Hayakawa wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
>>Behalf Of Anne McCadden
>>Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 9:43 PM
>>To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [linux-help] Re: Dual processors
>>
>> GIMP and photoshop, especially when
>>using intensive rendering and animations are also designed to use more
>>than one processor.
>>
>>
>
>I had an impression that processes such as image manipulation, video
>processing, and audio processing are rather I/O intensive, and get more help
>from faster disks.  Sure, having fast processors would help too, but with
>such processes that uses swap spaces heavily would tend to suffer from disk
>I/O bottle neck.  Striping type of RAID would aid such process nicely.
>
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