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Re: does linux support SMP(symmetrical multiprocessing)?



> do any one of you have any idea that "does linux support SMP(symmetrical
>  multiprocessing) ? and if it does , does it have all the tool for its
>  development? " if you have any thing regarding this please send me

	Some people have already responded to the first question. As for
the second, you don't need any special tools to write for an SMP machine
(same goes for M$ NT also).
	But to truely exploit the parallelism, you may want to either
break your app into multiple executables communicating through some kind
of IPC or have a single executable and create multiple threads (use
pthreads library for this) within the same executable.
	In either case the standard tools are sufficient. Its your
software design that changes.

	Kedar.