Re: Scaling noise
From: Samium Gromoff (deepfire_at_ibe.miee.ru)
Date: 09/03/03
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Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:02:07 +0400 To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
> > It's called asymptotic behavior. After a while you can look at the graph
> > and see that more CPUs on the same memory doesn't make sense. It hasn't
> > made sense for a decade, what makes anyone think that is changing?
>
> It didnt make sense two decades ago either, the VAX 8300 could be made to
> go 6way and it stopped going faster around the third processor added.
It doesn`t dismiss the increasing disbalance between cpu/memory speeds, which is
way more fundamental than the possible technical glitches with experimental
SMP on VAXes.
regards, Samium Gromoff
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