SV: Multiple cpu?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 18 12:43:53 IST 2002


At 11:35 18/09/2002, you wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Anders Andersson, IT wrote:
>
> > Thanks, then I order more horse power to the comp
> > and do an upgrade when v.4 is here.
>
>I don't recall if version 4 is supposed to be multithreaded or not, but
>the ability to run multiple instances of mailscanner, or even just two,
>will be a Very Good Thing. Probably a lot more valuable than
>multithreadedness. My guess is it's more of an IO and scheduling thing
>than CPU horsepower.

It's not strictly multi-threaded but it is multi-process.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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