Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264187AbTICSP7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:15:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264158AbTICSO2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:14:28 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:63180 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264191AbTICSMm (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Sep 2003 14:12:42 -0400 Subject: Re: Scaling noise From: Alan Cox To: Larry McVoy Cc: "Brown, Len" , Giuliano Pochini , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030903173213.GC5769@work.bitmover.com> References: <20030903173213.GC5769@work.bitmover.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1062612665.19982.3.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-4) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 19:11:06 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 922 Lines: 20 On Mer, 2003-09-03 at 18:32, Larry McVoy wrote: > For a lot of applications we are. Go talk to your buddies in the processor > group, I think there is a fair amount of awareness that for most apps faster > processors aren't doing any good. Ditto for SMP. >From the app end I found similar things. My gnome desktop performance doesn't measurably improve beyond about 7-800Mhz. Some other stuff like mozilla benefits from more CPU and 3D game stuff can burn all it can get. Disk matters a great deal (especially seek performance although there is a certain amount of bad design in the kernel/desktop also involved there) and memory bandwidth also seems to matter sometimes. - 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/