Kuros Yalpani wrote: > Hi, my video sharing website (politube.org) that I developed with rails, > runs on lighttpd/fcgi (I know it is obsolete by now) and is severely > under load and regularly blocks because the lighttpd process chews up > 50% of RAM (1GB). > > So now I want to move the system to a new server with 8GB, 64bit , > Quad core processor (intel i7 920) but I am not sure if hyperthreading > will really do anything better. Even if I switched to mongrel, would it > be able to leverage the Quadcore architecture?
Please note that hyperthreading (which is a technique for splitting up one procesor into two virtual processors) is not the same as application threading. Whether hyperthreading will be beneficial is highly dependent on your workload. Benchmarks for your application are your friend. In general, I would say, hyperthreading will be beneficial if you have a workload that is a composite of two distinct and mutually exclusive loads, such as video processing on the one hand and I/O on the other. If the loads are not mutually exclusive then you will have a lot more cache misses and hyperthreading may actually be detrimental. -- Roderick van Domburg http://www.nedforce.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
