Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> writes: > On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Josh Trutwin wrote: > > This is my first dual-processor Linux adventure, I'm installing Debian > > woody on a Dell PowerEdge 1750 with two 2.4 Ghz Xeon processors. > > Oooo. Congratulations. > > > Anyway, now that Debian is up on it and seems to be running fine, I was > > wondering if anyone had some suggestions for testing the SMP kernel > > performance. I would like a nice fuzzy feeling knowing that it's > > actually really utilizing both processors. > > > > Would compiling a kernel suffice? Any other suggestions? > > You could always fire up two copies of SETI at home, and eyeball `top` to > see the CPU affinity (which I believe it shows when running with multiple > CPUs). Yeah, that works. I nearly always show 95%+ utilization of each processor. It gets a bit lower when the system is busy :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, <dd-b at dd-b.net>, <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <noguns-nomoney.com> <www.dd-b.net/carry/> Photos: <dd-b.lighthunters.net> Snapshots: <www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <dragaera.info/> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list