Guest ethrbunny Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 Not a tough question.. looks like the BSD versions don't so I was curious if the same applied to Linux. Is there anything to be gained by running my apps on a multi-processor box? Just curious.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 It does. It should be faster with 2 procs, than with 1, but not twice faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted December 19, 2002 Report Share Posted December 19, 2002 it does ... and it works perfect. theYinYeti is right. 2 processors = about 1.8 the speed I've got 2 1gig procs, and a sinlge 2.3 is faster :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glitz Posted December 20, 2002 Report Share Posted December 20, 2002 I use a dual 433MHz celeron motherboard. It runs great. The amount of usage you get out of 2 CPUs increases with the number of processes and/or threads you run at the same time. Most software only use one thread so you wont see any increase by just running that per se but if you run other stuff at the same time it helps. Some newer games use multiple threads pretty well. I bought UT2003 and it makes pretty good use of both processors (on average about 1.5 times the power of 1 CPU). It really works for me when I run programs that I write that just do plain computations flat out. The program will use one CPU at 100% constantly and I can still get good mouse and X windows response when using other programs on the second CPU. However, a single CPU at twice the dual CPU speed will always be as good or better. Glitz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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