"James Clark,Florida" wrote:

> I would agree to the below sentiment for only long CPU intensive processes.
> But for many normal processes, taking into consideration I/O, memory, and
> having to battle other processes, more CPU's will accelerate the process.
> I/O can now be handled by another CPU, and system housekeeping, etc. Of
> course, you will not see 1 cpu 100%, 2 cpu 50%, etc. type of speed up as I
> would interpret what is said below, but you should see some improvement, and
> depending upon your workload that improvement can be substantial.

james makes a very good point.  sometime ago, there was some discussion here
about adding another processor to our 995/300.  our hp se pointed out that we
*might* see a 10-15% performance gain if we did that.  he explained it this way
-- you can pretty much assume that one processor will be doing nothing than
trying to manage the other three <sigh>                     - d

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