Yes thats true Neil, I have made this argument to the powers that be... But they want hard facts unfortunately. Thanks for your feedback. I need a white paper or a scalability study or something similar. -----Original Message----- From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 18 December 2003 12:40 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Advantages of single over dual processors Well if nothing else, with single CPU machines - every CPU has to run an instance of the OS. With duals, at least you remove some overhead, with little penalty on scaling. Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Aston [mailto:iaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 18 December 2003 12:34 > To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: [THIN] Advantages of single over dual processors > > > Hi everyone, > > Does anyone have any performance for single vs dual processor > servers? I have always been a fan of dual processor machines, > but I need to quantify that with hard facts. > > For example, will 2 * 1ghz processors perform better than 1 * > 2.4ghz processor? > > Thanks, > > Ian *********************************************** This e-mail and its attachments are confidential and are intended for the above named recipient only. If this has come to you in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this e-mail from your system. You must take no action based on this, nor must you copy or disclose it or any part of its contents to any person or organisation. Statements and opinions contained in this email may not necessarily represent those of Littlewoods. Please note that e-mail communications may be monitored. The registered office of Littlewoods Limited and its subsidiaries is 100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, L70 1AB. Registered number of Littlewoods Limited is 262152. ************************************************ ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - 99Point9.Com Emergent Online EOL Universal Printer 4.0 Has arrived! http://www.99point9.com/public/products/ ********************************************************* Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses. The service is powered by MessageLabs. If you have any queries please contact support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ________________________________________________________________________ ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - 99Point9.Com Emergent Online EOL Universal Printer 4.0 Has arrived! http://www.99point9.com/public/products/ ********************************************************* Useful Thin Client Computing Links are available at: http://thethin.net/links.cfm *********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm