Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262892AbTICGBX (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 02:01:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262979AbTICGBW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 02:01:22 -0400 Received: from [213.171.53.133] ([213.171.53.133]:44047 "EHLO gulipin.miee.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262892AbTICGBW (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 02:01:22 -0400 Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:02:07 +0400 Message-ID: <874qzuwjlc.wl%deepfire@ibe.miee.ru> From: Samium Gromoff To: Mikael Abrahamsson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Scaling noise User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.11.3 (Wonderwall) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 826 Lines: 18 > > It's called asymptotic behavior. After a while you can look at the graph > > and see that more CPUs on the same memory doesn't make sense. It hasn't > > made sense for a decade, what makes anyone think that is changing? > > It didnt make sense two decades ago either, the VAX 8300 could be made to > go 6way and it stopped going faster around the third processor added. It doesn`t dismiss the increasing disbalance between cpu/memory speeds, which is way more fundamental than the possible technical glitches with experimental SMP on VAXes. regards, Samium Gromoff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/