[SWLUG] how much more CPU performance can one get these days?

[Iain Menzies-Runciman]

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 09:40 +0100, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> well an important thing to determine is if thats 100% of one core, or of
> all cores.
> 
> 
> in top press '1' to switch the view to list the cores separately, if its
> only maxing out one core then it isnt threaded and more cores isnt going
> to help.
> 
> in which case i would imagine (im no expert) that the thing to
> concentrate on is getting the highest performance of one core, either
> through usign a single core chip, or a dualcore that has better speed
> per core.

For looking at performance monitoring, I would recommend
'nmon' ( http://nmon.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php ) as it can give a
complete view on the system performance including I/O to look at finding
where the bottlenecks in system usage are.

Regards,
Ming.
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