Re: Debian with dual PIII 500
On 2004-02-05, Phillipus Gunawan penned:
> G'day,
>
> What is the benefit of having dual processor for a server box?
> Depending on the nature of the OS, some will boost, say, dual PIII 500
> to become PIII 1000. Other OS can make the second CPU and back up
> processor just in case the first one blew up. And, another
> configuration, is, to separate a special software to use the specific
> CPU only.
The questions in the above paragraph sound more kernel-specific than
distro-specific. I've heard that the linux kernel devs have been
working on hot-swappable hardware, but I don't know the details at all.
If you go to www.google.com and search on "smp linux", you'll find a ton
of information.
>
> These answers are mouth_to_mouth answers taht I can get from people
> around me. But I want to know more on how we can set these setting
> under Debian. Any direction?
>
> What the most common use of dual processor in Debian Server?
>
> Lets say I want to build Tomcat-Java server, the Java compilation will
> take first CPU ussage and tomcat itself will take the second CPU. Is
> this possible?
>
> Thanks in advance for any helpfull information.
>
>
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monique
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