[SATLUG] Core 2 Quad for how much?!

[pixelnate]

Borries Demeler wrote:
> Linux will balance the load on the system just fine - it's only a question
> of the software you are running whether you can take advantage of multiple
> CPU's within one application. If the software is multi-threaded, or you
> use some parallel framework (mpi, pvm), you can use all of the procs in
> a single application, otherwise, the application will only use 1 CPU (or
> a portion of it). Any subsequent application will be shuttled to another
> processor automatically by Linux until all of them are used. Application
> here is used somewhat freely - it could be a system task as well. So, Linux
> supports multiple processor architectures just fine, but if you don't
> have enough tasks or multi-threaded software to take advantage of it
> it really doesn't buy you much.
As long as the apps/tasks are multi-threaded aware, which I would 
imagine most are in linux. In Leopard the entire load is split up across 
all available cpus evenly regardless of their threaded-ness.
> For me, just being able to run multiple
> CPU hungry applications simultaneously is often worth having multi-cpu
> systems.
>
>   
I hear ya. I love hitting F12 (render) in Blender and seeing my cpu 
fully loaded.


~Nate