[rescue] quad 486

[Brian]

Because then there is battling over cache access, and at a lower rate than
the processor.  Suppose the 2 procs need something different from the
cache, or suppose sometjing was there but now isn't because it was
displaced by a request of the other processor.  I knew someone with a dual
proc p166, and the way he described it to me, was that a lot of apps
actually performed worse.


	Brian

The path to a desireable destination
is often more difficult than the path to stay where you are.

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:39:04AM -0800, Brian wrote:
> > I would be hesitant to use smp on a box with procs whose L2 cache is not on
> > chip..
>
> Why do you say that?
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