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On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 19:58 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: |
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> actually the SMP "is" working, as in top shows 2 CPU's. but when i do |
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> an emerge --sync CPU1 stays pegged at 99% and CPU0 stays below 1% the |
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> entire time. this is a dual 200mhz U2 Sparc system, i was just |
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> wondering if this was normal or is there something messed up in my |
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> config? |
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AFAIK, certain operations can't use both CPU's because of the way |
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they're written. rsync (used by emerge --sync) may be one. At least |
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you'll use one cpu for rsync, and the other cpu for everything else you |
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may be doing at the time, so you'll still get a performance advantage. |
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> and sorry for posting this in the normal user list, i figured i would |
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> get more responses here as i dont think this is specific to Sparc |
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> hardware, but i could be wrong. |
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No worries! I don't know what the "official" word is, but this list is |
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more a general usage list, rather than gentoo specific issues. |
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Iain Buchanan <iain at netspace dot net dot au> |
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How come financial advisors never seem to be as wealthy as they |
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claim they'll make you? |
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