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From: davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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Subject: Re: Scaling noise
Date: 8 Sep 2003 19:27:29 GMT
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In article <200309040350.31949.phillips@arcor.de>,
Daniel Phillips  <phillips@arcor.de> wrote:

| As for Karim's work, it's a quintessentially flashy trick to make two UP 
| kernels run on a dual processor.  It's worth doing, but not because it blazes 
| the way forward for ccClusters.  It can be the basis for hot kernel swap: 
| migrate all the processes to one of the two CPUs, load and start a new kernel 
| on the other one, migrate all processes to it, and let the new kernel restart 
| the first processor, which is now idle.

UML running on a sibling, anyone? Interesting concept, not necessarily
useful.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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