optimisation hints required & broken links on wiki

[Richard Frovarp]

Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> 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
>

What? If it's a dual core Xeon, it has two cores of the same speed on 
one chip. If it's just hyper threading, well that's something else, and 
should probably be turned off.