video capture machine

[Don Lewis]

In comparison, a dual processor (500Mhz) Intel based
system and a (1Ghz) single processor should perform nearly the same.
I would NOT expect the 1Ghz single processor to perform
as well as the dual because the process management in the (smd) Linux kernel
would pipe tasks thru independent processors simultanesly. I am looking for
data to clearly show the difference in dual vs single (x2) processors.
Windows 2k allows assigning processes to individual or multiple
processors while Linux manages this internally. So when running multiple
processes a dual or greater should prevail.

Don Lewis
Senior Computer Specialist
Graduate Institute of Technology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
voice: (501)569-8016
email: djlewis at ualr.edu should have the advantage.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
Behalf Of George Estes
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 12:05 PM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: video capture machine


 Does anyone have experience, or thoughts, with running the AMD Athlon 1000
SOCKETA processor(or any AMD processor) in the video capture machine.  What
are the disadvantages, at this point, of not using dual processors.
I apologize if this has already been discussed.

George