Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 14:59:28 -0400 From: "Bruce Pennypacker" <BruceP@msn.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: dual processor question Message-ID: <001e01beb1e1$0b730d80$2612040a@bpennypacker_02.directhit.com>
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Hi all, We have an application that is very memory & cpu intensive, and can take upwards of 18 hours to run. The application essentially loads 4.5 million records of data into an array in memory and then does a lot of pattern matching through the data. It's currently running on a Pentium II 400MHz machine with 256MB RAM that's running FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE . We're considering upgrading the machine for a number of reasons and one of the things we're trying to determine if going with a dual processor machine would help out much in terms of cutting down the time it takes this application to run. Not knowing much about the details of multi-processor machines I have no idea what kind of benefit simply adding another processor would provide. Would simply upgrading to a dual processor system & FreeBSD 3.x help improve the performance of this application, or would it take a fairly hefty rewrite of the application to make the second CPU useful? I have visions of rewriting this thing to fork subprocesses & share memory, etc. Would all that be necessary? Thanks, -Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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