[THIN] Re: Advantages of single over dual processors

  • From: Ian Aston <iaston@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:46:17 -0000

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

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