[plug] Dual Celerons ...

[John Summerfield]

> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I'm back on this issue, yet again considering the Dual CPU option...
> 
> Why bother? Do you have any reason to believe you would notice a
> performance difference between single or dual ? Celeron vs PIII?
> 
> The only time many people hit their CPU limit is with 3D animation games,
> wanting to increase the frame rate. A 2nd CPU wont normally help here.
> (actually, SMP support is rumoured for QuakeIII)

If hist system's like these, he'd see some benefit:

[summer at possum data]$ rsh emu procinfo;procinfo
Linux 2.2.9 (root at emu) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #2 Sat May 15 05:34:50 WST 1999 [emu]

Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers      
Cached
Mem:         95632       88836        6796       20768       15276       
42788
Swap:       112888       26552       86336

Bootup: Mon May 31 18:00:47 1999    Load average: 2.00 2.04 2.09 3/93 8045

user  :   7d  7:30:58.36  14.9%  page in : 40493225  disk 1:    41878r  
320236w
nice  :   8d  3:17:02.99  16.5%  page out: 33567748  disk 2:  1500882r 
5428885w
system:   2d 20:08:08.01   5.8%  swap in :  1916456  disk 3:  4794217r 
3268051w
idle  :  30d 22:37:01.79  62.9%  swap out:  1526792
uptime:  49d  5:33:11.07         context :512470187

irq  0: 425359115 timer                 irq  7:  60047636 parport0         

irq  1:     31609 keyboard              irq  9:  15488324 SMC EPIC/100     

irq  2:         0 cascade [4]           irq 10:   4038258 eth0             

irq  3:    610878 serial                irq 13:         0 fpu              

irq  4: 307121453 serial                irq 14:  77062748 ide0             

irq  5:    224750 soundblaster          irq 15:  91715388 ide1             

irq  6:       390                      

Linux 2.2.10 (root at possum.os2.ami.com.au) (gcc 2.7.2.3) #2 Sun Jun 27 
14:16:09 WST 1999 [possum.os2.ami.com.au]

Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers      
Cached
Mem:         63240       60856        2384       26132        2884       
29420
Swap:       128484        5988      122496

Bootup: Mon Jul 19 12:47:48 1999    Load average: 1.11 1.05 1.01 2/70 21051

user  :       6:33:11.42  60.8%  page in :   323567  disk 1:      420r     
 42w
nice  :       0:24:57.02   3.9%  page out:  1464763  disk 2:    37207r   
50745w
system:       0:17:58.79   2.8%  swap in :     9616  disk 3:        4r     
  0w
idle  :       3:30:02.80  32.5%  swap out:     3552
uptime:      10:46:10.01         context : 14197113

irq  0:   3877003 timer                 irq 10:   1218887 SMC EPIC/100     

irq  1:     14866 keyboard              irq 12:    663190 PS/2 Mouse       

irq  2:         0 cascade [4]           irq 13:         1 fpu              

irq  5:        80 soundblaster          irq 14:     85048 ide0             

irq  7:         1 parport0              irq 15:        18 ide1             

irq  9:       544 aic7xxx              

[summer at possum data]$ 

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John Summerfield
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