From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 8:54:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FF7715371 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:41:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA23156; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:38:56 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:38:56 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Pratt, Christopher B" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Dual CPU effectiveness? In-Reply-To: <69B1BFD5C2CDD21189120008C75D3CCD138D56@ORSPABOTHELL2B.par.ora.fda.gov> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Pratt, Christopher B wrote: >I am considering buying a dual PIII CPU to replace the single PII CPU from >which I operate a high traffic website running FreeBSD, Apache, PERL and >mysql. I have been unable to locate a place where I can get a definitive >answer on whether FreeBSD can make decent use of dual cpu or even if a PIII Thare are charts on the website under the projects area that show the performance of FreeBSD. Basically, FreeBSD uses about 10% overhead. You will get better than 90% of your CPUs. (Sorry, that page was taken down from the server or at least I cant find it anf more.) Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message