On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 16:19, Alexander Wallace wrote: > Hello there, excuse my ignorance here... How's the SMP implementation in > current kernel in potato? Is it pretty efficient? Stable? Reliable? > > I have an IBM PC 325 with 1 P II 266 and I just saw a P II 266 for 20 > bucks in an auction... Is it a good thing to do?
For twenty bucks you should kick yourself for not doing it. > A windoze user told me once that he didn't think linux smp implementation > was efficient, I don't remember his reasons... Is this true? It depends on what you really need the SMP for. No SMP system is ever 100% efficient, but linux works for me. I'm using a dual PII system right now and finding it much faster than when it was a single processor. As for a "windoze" user telling you about inefficient products ... I'd just as well take Micro$oft's opinion, which is to say I value neither highly. --mike
