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    SubjectRe: Scaling noise
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    On Mer, 2003-09-03 at 18:32, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > For a lot of applications we are. Go talk to your buddies in the processor
    > group, I think there is a fair amount of awareness that for most apps faster
    > processors aren't doing any good. Ditto for SMP.

    >From the app end I found similar things. My gnome desktop performance
    doesn't measurably improve beyond about 7-800Mhz. Some other stuff like
    mozilla benefits from more CPU and 3D game stuff can burn all it can
    get.

    Disk matters a great deal (especially seek performance although there is
    a certain amount of bad design in the kernel/desktop also involved
    there) and memory bandwidth also seems to matter sometimes.


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