SV: SV: Multiple cpu?

Anders Andersson, IT andersan at LTKALMAR.SE
Wed Sep 18 13:00:59 IST 2002


Just so Im sure of what you mean.
I wont run multiple instances on the mailserver, I
just want to be able to use the extra process speed from 2 cpu's?

/Anders

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> Från: Julian Field [mailto:mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK]
> Skickat: den 18 september 2002 13:44
> Till: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Ämne: Re: SV: Multiple cpu?
> 
> 
> 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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