[PLUG] athlon64 dual core

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Fri Sep 2 03:52:24 UTC 2005


On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 03:27:02AM +0000, Vincent Yau wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I just brought up Linux 2.6.11 kernel on a athlon64 dual core 3000+ box.
> It is very fast.  Just curious if there is anything I need to do, like
> tuning kernel parameters, in order to fully
> utilize the dual core capability?

Use an SMP kernel.  Use the -j4 flag with make when building stuff.
Encode MP3s while playing Quake.

I'd love to see the output of "cat /proc/cpuinfo"



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