🚀 go-pugleaf

Matt van de Werken <m_vdw73@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 02:22:06 +1000, Floyd Davidson wrote:
>> I'll grant that if you are not running X and work only on one virtual
>> console at a time, one cpu will be just as fast as two.
>> 
>
>Even then, not necessarily. Try make -j 2 to compile your kernel. I get a
>clean kernel compile time of less than 5 minutes for my system (dual Athlon
>MP1800+, 512MB DDR RAM).

    make -j2 MAKE='make -j2' bzImage

In my case that takes less than a minute and a half.

...

>Since going to dual CPUs about 3 years ago, I'd never go back to a single
>processor system. I'd *much* rather spend the money and get two not quite
>state of the art CPUs for around the same price as one latest-n-greatest
>CPU.

I'm on my second SMP system.  The first one was an Asus P2B-DS
with a pair of PII's at 350Mhz.  A year ago I finally "replaced"
it, with a new Tyan S2462UNG board with a pair of Athlon MP
1600+ cpu's.  Then I put a couple 533Mhz Celeron's into the
P2B-DS.  They both have SCSI disks, though the Tyan board gets
several times the i/o speed that the Asus board does.  The Tyan
uses a RAID5 array with 4 disks spread across two SCSI
controllers, which accounts for most of the disk speed
difference.

-- 
Floyd L. Davidson         <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                 floyd@barrow.com