Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Sep 2003 21:29:53 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Scaling noise |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:18:51PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > I've frequently tried to make the point that all the scaling for lots of > > processors is nonsense. Mr Dell says it better: > > > > "Eight-way (servers) are less than 1 percent of the market and shrinking > > pretty dramatically," Dell said. "If our competitors want to claim > > they're No. 1 in eight-ways, that's fine. We want to lead the market > > with two-way and four-way (processor machines)." > > > > Tell me again that it is a good idea to screw up uniprocessor performance > > for 64 way machines. Great idea, that. Go Dinosaurs! > > And does your 4 way have hyperthreading?
What part of "shrinking pretty dramatically" did you not understand? Maybe you know more than Mike Dell. Could you share that insight? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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