I have the chance to upgrade my system to dual p3 450 processors. I was wondering if SEQ was coded to take advantage of dual processors. I know it is a long shot, but I thought I might ask.
I probably wont have it for another week or so.
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I have the chance to upgrade my system to dual p3 450 processors. I was wondering if SEQ was coded to take advantage of dual processors. I know it is a long shot, but I thought I might ask.
I probably wont have it for another week or so.
Yes. And even you should search ;).
--Jeeves
Heh..actually I did search for dual processor. It turned up 3 threads but none of them said anything about SEQ being muti-threaded.
I probably should have expanded my search though but was tired.
LOL!
No one escapes the "Jeeves Smackdown"!
heres a hint, the -mt in qt-mt that showeq links against, stands for -- multi threaded. If you want to find all of the explicit app level threading in showeq,
You also have to take into account the different processes responsible for making showeq happen, showeq itself, X, your window manager, etc. Having a second processor will benefit all of these since you can know have 2 processes running concurrently.Code:grep QThread /path/to/showeq/src/*
and let me tell you, i can FEEL the difference between 2 procs and just one... ANYWHERE. i think arstechnica.com or 2cpu.com refered to it as the "creamy smoothness" of smp.
i run 2-4 sessions of seq and listem to mp3s all at once... system NEVER feels sluggish EVER. now, sometimes seq is kinda sluggish itself but that is isolated in its window as i can flip to other virtual desktops and be going along at normal speed.
just be sure to use "time make" then sometime later try "time make -j3" when you are re-compiling showeq... :)
I just did a search for "search" and it returned 313 threads most of them from Jeeves, man I wish he would stop posting redundant information!
I know exactly what you mean I used an SMP box for a long time as my primary system. I really miss that feeling.Quote:
Originally posted by fryfrog
and let me tell you, i can FEEL the difference between 2 procs and just one... ANYWHERE. i think arstechnica.com or 2cpu.com refered to it as the "creamy smoothness" of smp.
Man I wish you would post useful or topical information!Quote:
Originally posted by Exo
I just did a search for "search" and it returned 313 threads most of them from Jeeves, man I wish he would stop posting redundant information!