optimisation hints required & broken links on wiki

[Denis Beauchemin]

Sandro Dentella a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:06:46PM +0100, Gareth wrote:
>   
>> What is your setting for 'Max Children' in MailScanner.conf?
>> Given your processor and amount of RAM it should be set to no more than
>> 10.
>>
>>     
>
> I said i'm using dual xeon 3 GB. Better would have been 'dual xeon biproc'. 
> That's 4 procs (0-3 in /proc/cpuinfo). 
>
> According to that mean config man page should be 4 processes for CPU. So I
> should raise again to 20. Do I understand correctly?
>
>
> sandro
> *:-)
>   
Sandro,

I think Xeon processors are not really double processors.  The second 
one is not as fast as the first one so you should not consider them as 2 
processors.  If you have a dual Xeon, then you are closer to 3 
processors than 4.

Denis

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