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At 05:55 PM 10/29/2003 +0000, you wrote:
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>I don't think Hyper Threading will affect Modus Mail in any way, however
>you should be aware that Modus Mail is not written to take advantage of
>multiple processors. Each Modus Mail service will utilize a single
>processor and affinities can be set so that the services are bound to a
>specific process.

Hi Suneel,

Are you saying that modusMail (v1 or higher) doesn't take advantage of multiple 
processors?

Thanks in advance for the clarification.

Jim
TDE Internet


>Hyper Threading in essence presents a single CPU as multiple CPU's to
>the operating system and hence should not affect Modus Mail or any other
>application. The Hyper Threading drivers should allow Modus Mail to
>function as though it is using multiple CPU's and hence in turn improve
>overall performance.
>
>If you do install Modus Mail with Hyper Threading turned on I would be
>interested in knowing what you see for Page Faults in the ModusADM and
>ModusSCAN services as I believe this may increase. Page Faults do not
>indicate any problems with the software and it will function perfectly
>fine, however they do indicate a possible performance bottleneck in that
>the system expects to find something in memory that is no longer there
>(there is a lot more to page faults than this, but I wanted to keep
>things simple).
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christian Schmit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>Sent: 29 October 2003 17:30
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>We plan to install a new dell poweredge server
>for modusmail. We plan to use Windows 2003 as OS.
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>Should we enable hyper threading or not?
>
>Are there any known issues with hyper threading
>and modusmail?
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>Christian
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