Hi,
    I got a question.  Iam running a quad 200 Mhz (4*200Mhz) compaq server with 1 Go of ram .  The main purpose of the machine is to serve a web application (find nearest dealer) for hundred of peoples using MapXtreme. 
 
So Most applications are not multi-threaded, and will not directly benefit from multiple CPUs.  They run as a single process on only one CPU at a time (even if the OS likes to run them on each CPU alternately :)  The important thing, is that, in the NORMAL case, an application only runs on one cpu at a time, and thus will not really calculate or "run" any faster on a multi-CPU system.
 
The advantage of a multi-CPU system is that the whole system runs faster, since the OS can put one process on one CPU and another different process on another CPU.  So I wanna know if MapX (the motor of MapXtreme) is compiled to use the maximum power of a smp processor or it will just run at the speed of a single processor?
 
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emman
 
 
Emmanuel Paré
GIS/Programming for DBX Geomatics
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http://www.linux-mandrake.com

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