[thelist] Multiple Processors???

[Daniel J. Cody]

Asif -

How much traffic is this machine expected to get? Is it serving static 
HTML files, or dynamic files like ASP of Colf Fusion?

If its not doing anything super crazy, go with one CPU.. Ususally only 
super intensive applications like Databases reap the benefits of having 
2 CPU's.

For webservers, RAM is always more important than CPU cycles. The comes 
disk performance and the speed/size of the L2 cache on the chip..

Shout if you have any more questions :)

.djc.

Asif Suria wrote:

> I am not sure if this question is appropriate for this
> list or not. I am new to this list and have found it
> very useful these last couple of weeks. If it isnt
> please let me know and my apologies to all of you.
> 
> I was looking into the configuration of a web server
> that my organization was interested in buying and was
> trying to decide if a single more powerful processor
> server (such a Pentium III 1 Ghz processor) would be
> better than using a dual processor server (such as 2
> Pentium III 866 Mhz processors). 
> 
> I know that the Operating System distributes the tasks
> between the two processors but there is always the
> overhead of distributing the tasks and retrieving the
> results. the operating system that we are considering
> is Windows 2000 server.