Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 11:44:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@q.closedsrc.org> To: Nader Turki <nturki@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Processors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007251140430.5286-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <002601bff667$c43a9060$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net>
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On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Nader Turki wrote: > Hi there, > My machine is a: > PII400MHz > 512MB ECC PC100 SDRAM > 9.1GB SCSI Ultra2 LVD > 36.4GB SCSI Ultra2 LVD > > I'm using the machine as a shell/web server it's pretty fast and nice. > I was thinking to upgrade to a Dual PII400MHz ... Will my machine be faster > with a Dual PII400MHz? I mean will I be able to tell the difference? If yes > ... will there be a big difference? Hope someone answer me soon. The performance increase depends on if the application(s) that you use are multi-threaded capable and if they are CPU intensive enough to matter. Having a second processor is nice to off-load some processing cycles to the other processor, leaving more cycles available on the primary processor for more important tasks (like RC5 :) In most cases, having a second processor in a web server is wasteful, but if you also run back-end applications (like database, web applications, etc.) it might help. // Linh Pham // http://closedsrc.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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