> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > >> From: Sam Hokin [mailto:s...@ims.net] > >> The server that's being a problem is a Dell PowerEdge > >> 1950, quad dual core.
> Since we have 4 processors here (do we, really? I am not so familiar > with the multi-core architecture), can each of these processors be > running a thread of these apps/classes, where on a single processor > there would be only one thread running ? Quad dual-core*. That's 4 silicon dies, each with two copies of "the core of" a CPU. So (4 * 2) = 8 separate instruction execution units, 8 program counters, executing up to 8 instruction streams in parallel. The cores on one die share some infrastructure like cache and memory access, but the interesting feature here is that this machine can run 8 threads concurrently. - Peter * Says the original poster. Looking at the Dell site, I reckon it's actually dual quad-core - so two dies, 4 cores per die. Still 8 concurrent threads, though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org