On Jan 18,  3:52pm, fvdl@netbsd.org (Frank van der Linden) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Linux emulation, binary software, cluster/grid and SMP

| On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:46:14PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > >What about SMP? All of our systems are AMD 2x CPU. How does Linux
| > >emulation perform with SMP?
| > 
| > Multithreaded support sucks. It will use only one CPU. If you have
| > 2 separate processes, it will work fine.
| 
| Actually, since Linux threads are implement as clones (e.g. seperate
| processes), they'll get scheduled across CPUs just fine..

This is true. It is funny that way (how our native threads are slower
than emulated ones, scheduler activations and all).

christos