From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 13:56:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1E416A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:56:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from geminix.org (gen129.n001.c02.escapebox.net [213.73.91.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A20D43F93 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:55:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gemini@geminix.org) Message-ID: <3FC672EC.1000904@geminix.org> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:55:56 +0100 From: Uwe Doering Organization: Private UNIX Site User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <200311261658.34693.fbsd-questions@trini0.org> In-Reply-To: <200311261658.34693.fbsd-questions@trini0.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received: from gemini by geminix.org with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1APU7C-000Ak9-00; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:55:58 +0100 Subject: Re: Multiple CPU Performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:56:00 -0000 Gerard Samuel wrote: > I was fortunate to acquire a dual Slot one motherboard. > I currently only have one PIII 450 in there, and its working without any > problems so far. > This box is primarily for www/samba/cvs. > I was wondering if my PHP apps would benefit (run faster) if I > introduced a 2nd CPU. > Just wondering.... A single instance of PHP would use only one CPU. However, if your web server spreads multiple parallel requests over multiple processes (Apache 1.x, for instance) you would indeed benefit from the second CPU. Uwe -- Uwe Doering | EscapeBox - Managed On-Demand UNIX Servers gemini@geminix.org | http://www.escapebox.net