Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262049AbTIHGVY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 02:21:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262050AbTIHGVY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 02:21:24 -0400 Received: from hermes.py.intel.com ([146.152.216.3]:46819 "EHLO hermes.py.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262049AbTIHGVW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 02:21:22 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Subject: RE: Scaling noise Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 02:21:10 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Scaling noise Thread-Index: AcN1hZmDu0HokYbZSzGT3ltYnNcREQAQbPPA From: "Brown, Len" To: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Larry McVoy" Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , "William Lee Irwin III" , "Alan Cox" , "Giuliano Pochini" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 08 Sep 2003 06:21:12.0391 (UTC) FILETIME=[6672A570:01C375D1] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 13 > 5) NUMA machines are slow. There is not a single NUMA machine in the > top 10 of the top500 supercomputers list. Likely this has more to > do with system sizes supported by the manufacture than inherent > process inferiority, but it makes a difference. Hardware that is good at running linpack (all you gotta run to get onto http://www.top500.org/ )isn't necessarily hardware that is any good at, say, http://www.tpc.org/ - 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/