[ale] Dual Processor Boards & Linux...

[Matthew Brown]

The pipe's 100Mbit, Cap'n and we're giv'n all we got!!!

-Matt
-----Original Message-----
 From: Mike Fletcher <fletch at phydeaux.org>
To: Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net>
Cc: ale at cc.gatech.edu <ale at cc.gatech.edu>
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Dual Processor Boards & Linux...


>>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Brown <matthew.brown at cordata.net> writes:
>
>    Matthew> just for the record...  would apache fall under the
>    Matthew> multi-process portion of this last message since it shows
>    Matthew> up multiple times in ps ax?
>
> Most likely yes.  Each request is handled by a separate child
>process, so having more processors to run children on would speed up
>response time.  Keep in mind though that with a fast enough box and
>mostly static content the limiting factor is going to trend away from
>CPU time towards your network bandwith (e.g. it does you no good to
>stick a 16 processor ultra behind a 56k link :).
>
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