I always go Dual-CPU. Its not that pricey. We have had no SMP problems at all and I think it performs much better, about 30% higher transaction rate. To me hte RAM is more important then the CPU dualism.
But in general on a high volume system you are probably going to be more bound by Disk I/O etc then CPU.
Our code base is pretty huge and we run more modules from CPAN then I can count including all the XML stuff ( LibXML, SOAP etc etc etc ).
John-
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:15:34 -0000
"Jim Morrison [Mailing-Lists]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hey ho,
Sorry if this is an FAQ or a little OT..
We're thinking of moving a couple of servers and one of the
possibilities is a dual PIII box (Compaq AFAIK, probably pretty standard
rack box)
I'm just wondering how Linux (RedHat 7.2) deals with dual processors,
and whether any of the following will have problems:
- Apache & mod_perl themselves (currently use v1's rather than 2's)
- LibXML,XSLT etc running under mod_perl
- A whole bunch of CPAN mods!
Does linux just take care of 2 proccessors or does the code have to be
compatable?
Also out of pure curiosity does it actually double the capabilities of
the machine? (The jump from our current 128Mb to 1GB of RAM will - I'm
guessing - have more of an impact ;-)
Cheers..
Jimbo
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