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).

     Jima


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