[ale] Dual Processor Boards & Linux...

[Jay Finch]

At 02:48 PM 12/28/98 -0500, Vernard Martin wrote:
>The basic SMP support in the Linux kernel is in the scheduling of
processes. It
>will automatically schedule tasks to run on both processes. However, by
>default, single threaded applications such as most traditional process based
>applications will not run faster simply by running them on an SMP machine. The
>apps must either be multi-process so that one can be on each process or they
>must be multi-threaded so that you can split the threads over the two
processes
>to get any speedup.

Hrm -- Well then, let me explain what I use my machine for and I hope you
can advise me.

My server, LARP.COM (http://www.larp.com), is mainly running web services,
PostGres-SQL, some FTP services, and some basic compiling.  Would a
dual-processor board help speed up these types of functions, or would I be
better suited looking at just a processor upgrade?  (I'm running a P150 w/
128MB of RAM right now, looking at upgrading to Dual-P200's with 256MB of RAM)

Cheers!
Jay
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