Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Scaling noise | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:11:06 +0100 |
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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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