To SMP or not to SMP

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Tue Jan 8 02:39:09 UTC 2013


On Jan 7, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Barney Cordoba wrote:

> I have a situation where I have to run 9.1 on an old single core box. Does anyone have a handle on whether it's better to build a non SMP kernel or to just use a standard SMP build with just the one core? Thanks.

	Non-SMP. I don't see why it would be wise to involve the standard locking structure overhead for a single-core box.
Cheers,
-Garrett


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