Bill, I'll saw this post and decided to add my two cents which may or may not help.
There are two type of mulitprocessing. One is symmetrical and the other is asymmetrical. Symmetrical is multiple processors working on the same code or problem together to complete the process in less time. Asymmetrical is multiple porcessors each working on either designated processes individually or multiple processes individually. In some OS's you can designated what each processor does and what application it services. Each processor dedicated to a specific process usually user defined. In a symmetrical situation you gain absolutly nothing unless the appllication you're using lends itself to symmetrical processing. So multiple proccesors may give you no gain at all unless your application can make use of them. I think Novell only does Symmetrical processing, therefore your application would have to be multiple processor aware in order for you to really gain anything. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/31/02 10:16AM >>> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On >Behalf Of Troy Sosamon > >... > 9. Servers should be as fast as you can afford, preferrable w/ dual >processors and mirrored or stripped hard drives. >... I have a question in regards to this one. I have a Novell NetWare 5.0 with dual PIII 500 processors. I have been told that the only way the second processor will kick in is when the first processor to at 100% for a while. Is that true? If not, how do you get the second processor to work? Bill ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
