Henry Ortega wrote: > For a web/mail server which is better? > > Dual Processors (3.2GHz each) > or > Dual Core Processor (2.8GHz) > > Let us assume both are priced the same, which would you pick?
Web and mail servers are generally I/O bound creatures. Web servers only become CPU-bound when you have very heavy server-side scripting (and THAT tends to concentrate CPU on the backend database most of the time rather than on the web server, which, again, winds up waiting for network I/O), and mail service tends to become CPU-bound only if you do a lot of heavy filtering (think spam/virus filtering and the like). I seriously doubt that a dual core/dual CPU box would give any kind of measurable benefit over any single processor machine, given that I/O, not the CPU, is the bottleneck for these types of applications. But hey, if you're not paying the bill, toss a coin and decide based on that. The short answer is that most likely it won't matter one iota, and it will be the I/O and networking hardware on the machine that will ultimately determine which setup wins. -- The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
