* Adam Thompson <athom...@athompso.net> [2014-04-17 19:31]: > I've found that having multiple cores available can speed up a desktop, and > certain classes of cpu-bound server applications, and not much else.
MP speeds up all userland-heavy tasks a lot. MP doesn't yet speed up kernel-heavy tasks as much as it should. I have one use case where 8-core-MP is more than 7 times faster than single core. > Those applications are not many; databases (sometimes), web servers > (sometimes), application servers (often). no, there's much more. As said, most of everything userland-heavy. > The fact my router has 8 cores available doesn't really help it very > much. (Maybe BGP converges a little bit faster?) it can help bgpd indeed. > Ditto for my DNS servers, my mail server, my proxy server, etc. depends on the workload. heavy content filtering on mailservers will benefit. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services. Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
