Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:32:09 +0100 (MET) | From | Gabor Kuti <> | Subject | Re: How can I test the SMP ? |
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> Any body having played with SMP ? > We have a two P2-330 cpu SMP with 128M RAM, runing kernel 2.0.25. How can I haven't played with SMP [unfortunately I haven't got hardware] but
In 2.0.x kernels do edit linux/Makefile and uncomment line: #SMP = 1 In 2.1.x kernels it is uncommented. > I know that the linux was using the two CPU not one? And how can I test cat /proc/cpuinfo and you may look at the boot messages.
> how effection it is? Hm, I don't know but it should be about 170% with 2 processors [100% with one of course]. It is _never_ linear. [or at least as I have learnt about it..]
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