Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:02:41 -0800 From: Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Gerard Samuel <fbsd-questions@trini0.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple CPU Performance Message-ID: <415E761F-205C-11D8-91D9-000A95D7C3C6@pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <200311261658.34693.fbsd-questions@trini0.org> References: <200311261658.34693.fbsd-questions@trini0.org>
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On Nov 26, 2003, at 13:58, Gerard Samuel wrote: > I was fortunate to acquire a dual Slot one motherboard. > I currently only have one PIII 450 in there, and its working without > any > problems so far. > This box is primarily for www/samba/cvs. > I was wondering if my PHP apps would benefit (run faster) if I > introduced a 2nd CPU. No single program thread will run faster than it would on an unladen single-processor machine. You would gain more in terms of how many threads could run concurrently. In other words: more, not faster. KeS
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