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Best setup for Quad Processor system?

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BatmanNate

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It is possible one of these may be finding it's way into my possession in the very near future (a modest 4x PPro 200, but still) and I was wondering if there was a certain Linux installation or other OS even that would be most ideal for taking advantage of the hardware. Anyone have experience with quad PCs? Anything I should need to know or watch out for?
 
The linux SMP kernel should take advantage of four processors as long as you have enough work for them. 😉 A single app must be multi-threaded to take advantage of multiple processors. But Linux does a good job of disbursing processes amongst the processors when several single threaded applications are running.

Pick your favorite distro. You may want to recompile your kernel if the one provided was compiled for the i386 instruction set as many distros do (RedHat) Of course you will want to check the little box for SMP support as well.

Unfortunately I've never had the chance to play with a quad system.
 
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