On 2004-02-05, Phillipus Gunawan penned: > G'day, > > What is the benefit of having dual processor for a server box? > Depending on the nature of the OS, some will boost, say, dual PIII 500 > to become PIII 1000. Other OS can make the second CPU and back up > processor just in case the first one blew up. And, another > configuration, is, to separate a special software to use the specific > CPU only.
The questions in the above paragraph sound more kernel-specific than distro-specific. I've heard that the linux kernel devs have been working on hot-swappable hardware, but I don't know the details at all. If you go to www.google.com and search on "smp linux", you'll find a ton of information. > > These answers are mouth_to_mouth answers taht I can get from people > around me. But I want to know more on how we can set these setting > under Debian. Any direction? > > What the most common use of dual processor in Debian Server? > > Lets say I want to build Tomcat-Java server, the Java compilation will > take first CPU ussage and tomcat itself will take the second CPU. Is > this possible? > > Thanks in advance for any helpfull information. > > -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
