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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:38:56 +0000 (GMT)
From:      "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
To:        "Pratt, Christopher B" <cpratt@par.ora.fda.gov>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Dual CPU effectiveness?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909152030300.23104-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <69B1BFD5C2CDD21189120008C75D3CCD138D56@ORSPABOTHELL2B.par.ora.fda.gov>

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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



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