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Does anyone have any reports of a Linux system with 2 CPUs running
faster than a system with a single CPU?
A friend of mine has a 2xPii-266 and I was playing with it (booted of a Jaz
drive - its an NT machine) for a couple of hours.
Parallel kernel compiles are considerably faster. Network and disk
performance didn't seem to be noticably slower, but it is somewhat difficult
to tell without propery testing using a real setup.
Anyhow, the toying I did do did infact seem to be quicker - so now I want
one :) (Actually, might get a Sparc instead)
DaveM has probably done tests on the SMP Sparc64 machines and would have a
good idea on which operations are faster and which are slower?
-Chris