[linux-audio-user] preferred motherboards ?

[Steve Harris]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:46:48 -0800, al goldstein wrote:
> Hi Chris
> 
> I'm curious how much work you get out of your second processor. This 
> freebsdbox I'm on has the dual Abit Celeron. I've found to put the
> second processor to work generally requires more effort than to leave it alone.
> The first cpu can be 95% employed and the second will be at 0% unless you 
> start another intensive task while the first is still running. This was true 
> for me on Linux 2.2 kernels also. I've moved to single processor Athlon.

Under JACK the second processor generally gets to do all the non-dsp work
(UIs, disk i/o etc.), so it is quite busy.

There is the possibility to split the JACK tasks among the available
processors, but no-ones really looked at it, its not really neccesary.

- Steve