Subject: Re: Linux emulation, binary software, cluster/grid and SMP
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/2006 15:52:34
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:46:14PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >What about SMP? All of our systems are AMD 2x CPU. How does Linux
> >emulation perform with SMP?
>
> Multithreaded support sucks. It will use only one CPU. If you have
> 2 separate processes, it will work fine.
Actually, since Linux threads are implement as clones (e.g. seperate
processes), they'll get scheduled across CPUs just fine..
- Frank