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[Trevor Phillips]

bk wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't make a difference. Also, VMware doesn't care about two CPUs (it
> detects APIC but that's about it).

My point is, wouldn't VMWare run in Single-mode, on a single CPU, and the
other CPU is free to do normal Linuxy things? As far as I see, the big
advantage of SMP is multi-tasking, with threaded apps a secondary bonus. Most
apps, performance isn't much better, if at all, but run several apps, and you
see a big boost in performance!

Two CPU's would mean VMWare could have a whole CPU to itself, and normal Linux
apps can use the other (roughly speaking), as opposed to everything tussling
for CPU time on one CPU...

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