On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:16:50PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > The last time this was tried, the total speedup was on the order of > 10% or so. Perhaps it's changed, but it wasn't a extreme speedup. Yeah, I remember that. But hey, I'll take 10%. And it's probably somewhat more on SMP and hyperthreading system. And really, speedup and parallelization is only an incidental benefit -- it'd be nice for services to know what they need before they start, rather than depending on magic number ordering. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>