(Please excuse the boring licensing details, but I've seen a lot of misinformation on this topic.)
Microsoft Windows is licensed per-processor, not per-core. XP Home supports 1 processor and XP Pro supports 2 processors. Each processor may have multiple cores. Server versions can support more than 2 processors but you pay for them. (Vista works similarly.) I've got a machine running Windows XP Home with 2 cores (Athlon X2) and it definitely uses both cores. And it's running Tomcat. :-) reference: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/highlights/multicore.mspx -- Len On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Alan Chaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XP Home only supports one core - however, that would hardly be an OS for > a production web server (grin) > > XP Professional is limited to 2 cpus > > I would suspect that the OPs factors were related to IO Bandwidth or > running out of threads as suggested earlier. I've found that a modern > multicore machine doesn't actually spend very much time processing the > Tomcat stuff at all. > > > > > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Re: Does tomcat support multicores > >> > >> | Doesn't XP limit itself to two cores? > >> > >> I don't think so. > > > > I'm sure some versions of XP are limited to two CPUs, since that was a > > concern when HyperThreading was all the rage. It may be just the Home > > edition, rather than Pro. I know the Windows Server versions (different > > license than XP) all support at least four CPUs. > > > > - Chuck > > > > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail > > and its attachments from all computers. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:47c72002262671410093335! > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
