Re: dual pentium

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:20:22 +0000 (GMT)


> the idea now is to get a dual processor pentium.

Dual pentium or dual PII - a dual pentium is junk nowdays

> my question is this - how well supported is this under linux?
> is it stable? and also does the kernel make any effort to
> parallelize across both processors or does it just multi-task across
> them?

It balances processes across them. In 2.2 it also runs some kernel work
spread across both processors

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