On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:11 PM, <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Building up F10 on my new quad-core uber-laptop is becoming a painful > exercise in single-threadedness, at least as far as Package Manager is > concerned. PM may be graphical and intuitive, but it's obviously not > designed to use more than one core. When it's checking dependencies or > installing packages, one core is solidly pegged at 100% while the other > three cores are idling. > > Of the thousands of 64-bit F10 applications/tools/utilities, I wonder how > many are aware of and can scale across multiple cores. Has anyone done a > recent survey to see which packages are [not] multi-core aware? > > A similar question was recently raised about the state of IPv6 support in > Windows and Linux. It turns out their kernels are IPv6 compatible, but > most applications (notably all MS Office apps) are decidedly not. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > It's times like this I miss BeOS... Anyway, just a me too here. I've noticed several applications only using one core on my Athlon X2 5200+... Richard -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
