On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:46:48 -0800, al goldstein wrote: > Hi Chris > > I'm curious how much work you get out of your second processor. This > freebsdbox I'm on has the dual Abit Celeron. I've found to put the > second processor to work generally requires more effort than to leave it alone. > The first cpu can be 95% employed and the second will be at 0% unless you > start another intensive task while the first is still running. This was true > for me on Linux 2.2 kernels also. I've moved to single processor Athlon. Under JACK the second processor generally gets to do all the non-dsp work (UIs, disk i/o etc.), so it is quite busy. There is the possibility to split the JACK tasks among the available processors, but no-ones really looked at it, its not really neccesary. - Steve
