[LUNI] single vs dual CPU

[me at heyjay.com]

I'll be running Oracle, but I won't be stressing it.  I'm going to go with a
single CPU box for now.  No matter what I build, it will be 10 times as fast
as the PII 400Mhz I'm running upon now

Jay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Lembark" <lembark at wrkhors.com>
To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion"
<luni at luni.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [LUNI] single vs dual CPU


>
>
> -- me at heyjay.com
>
> > How do you know when to get a dual processor vs. a faster single
> > processor? Are there any hard and fast rules?
>
> Depends heavily on what you want to do. Unless you are running
> a database server or hevily into threaded/multiprocess computing
> a single fast processor will run quite nicely. If you want to
> really pratice threading code, watch multi-process IPC, or run
> a database server (where physical I/O can be divied up between
> processors) then the SMP box makes sense (i.e., about 2% of the
> time :-).
>
>
> --
> Steven Lembark
> Workhorse Computing
> +1 888 359 3508
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