[Gllug] Moving processor between boxes

[Chris Hunter]

t.clarke wrote:
> I am a bit mystified as to why a box with 2 processors should be any faster
> than a box with one processor!
> Surely the whole point of SMP is the box can two two things simultaneously,
> not do one thing twice as fast?
> Thus, making it more difficult for a greedy process to 'hog' the machine!
> 
> Or have I got the wrong end of the stick completely?

Not entirely.  However, when you consider that several processor-based 
things may be going on at the same time, two processors are mostly 
better than one.

Chris




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