> Can you give one example of a slow task that you think cannot benefit much > from > parallel processing?
Rebuilding a venti index is almost entirely I/O bound. You can have as many cores as you want and they will all be sitting idle waiting for the disks. Parallel processing helps only to the extent that you can run the disks in parallel, and they're not multiplying quite as fast as processor cores. > Perhaps you have a couple of videos to recode? Then you can achieve > close to 100% utilization. http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-12-13/ Russ
