Re: Scaling noise

Samium Gromoff
2003-09-03T06:01:23Z

> > 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