On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 04:26:35PM +0200, Vitux wrote: > Is there a SMP-howto?
See: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.tex (although it is pretty deep stuff, at least my my standards) (if you don't have tex stuff installed, just browse the file) > Any tips, recommendations for running Debian on a dual > PII-350, 256ram? edit /usr/src/linux/Makefile and uncomment the line that says "SMP=1" (remove the "#" in front of it), and compile a kernel (ref kernel HOWTO). That is all I have ever done. There may be things you can do to optimize the usage of both processors, but I never bothered. I found that if you run a bunch of small programs they will balance themselves pretty well (example: run 10 instances of something to calculate pi). One big CAD program won't balance itself unless it was written for SMP. It is said that newer kernels (like 2.2.14) do a better job with SMP than 2.0.36, but I have never tested it. > (yes, I'm new at this ;-) We all are. You can be the world's expert on one thing, and you still don't know a damn thing about the other 99% of it. -- Thank you, Joe Bouchard Powered by Debian GNU/Linux
