On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Timothy Covell wrote:
> >
> > > each CPU? And this reminds me of how "make -j3 bzlilo" is slower
> than
> > > "make -j2 bzlilo".
> >
> > Running N CPU bound tasks on an M way SMP machine with N > M is
> never
> > going to improve your performace. On the contrary, expecially with
> the
> > current scheduler that keeps rotating the three tasks between the
> two
> > CPUs, you're going to suffer a slight performance degradation.
>
> And can you please post a patch for this?
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/mss-2.html#patches
- Davide
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