Re: 2 or 4 cpu's running Informix OnLine 7.xx

Neal Howard wrote: > > In article <319139FE.200C@eds.com>, > Greg Moye <msmcl301.gmoye01@eds.com> wrote: > >Scott Ratliff wrote: > > In a two-cpu situation, you want that second (apparently idle) CPU to > be running your users' 4GL apps, which hopefully will be talking to > the Online engine via shared memory attachment. :-) > If your machine which is to be running the Online engine is to be > *exclusively* a database server and run absolutely no other software > except for the O/S, then you need to stick with just a very fast > single CPU box, or go directly to at least four CPU's.... and then when you've > got such a big installation that justifies a 4+ CPU SMP unix box, you'll > be running out of network bandwidth. :-) :-) :-) (smileys, lots of smileys) > Uhmm, I really think that y'all should review your operating systems texts. With SMP, neither cpu is *idle*. They both or all, pull procs from the same stack. The only thing is that some of the vendors allow for procs to be dedicated to a single CPU. (Why? Cause its a marketing feature. Kinda like the memory resident flag in informix. ;-) =Mikey