A multi-processor savvy WebCatalog?
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texte = Hi Grant,I found this at WebSTAR-Talk, and it made me think about WebCatalog interms of potential increases in speed in the future. I know you're notready to do this now, but I saw it so I thought I'd report it here becauseit almost seems like Wesley is talking about WebCatalog specifically.Have you been talking with him lately? :)>>I have a request, for WebStar to support multiple processors. Im told>>this is not a difficult thing to incorporate in to the software.>>We've gone over this before; if WebSTAR used multiple processors it>wouldn't be any faster. To make a Web server effectively make use of all>processors, you need a fully SMP OS like BeOS, Rhapsody, UNIX, NT, etc.>>Now if some of the plug-ins that use large in-memory databases supported>multiprocessing they might be faster... (But how much faster than 1 tick>can you get?)>>------------------------------------------------------------------------->| Wesley Felter | What type shall I use? |>| | The gods refuse to answer. |>| wesf@mail.utexas.edu | They refuse because they do not know. |>| http://adhoc.com.inter.net/ | --W. A. Dwiggins |>-------------------------------------------------------------------------Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.comhttp://usarea.net/home.html
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Hi Grant,I found this at WebSTAR-Talk, and it made me think about WebCatalog interms of potential increases in speed in the future. I know you're notready to do this now, but I saw it so I thought I'd report it here becauseit almost seems like Wesley is talking about WebCatalog specifically.Have you been talking with him lately? :)>>I have a request, for WebStar to support multiple processors. Im told>>this is not a difficult thing to incorporate in to the software.>>We've gone over this before; if WebSTAR used multiple processors it>wouldn't be any faster. To make a Web server effectively make use of all>processors, you need a fully SMP OS like BeOS, Rhapsody, UNIX, NT, etc.>>Now if some of the plug-ins that use large in-memory databases supported>multiprocessing they might be faster... (But how much faster than 1 tick>can you get?)>>------------------------------------------------------------------------->| Wesley Felter | What type shall I use? |>| | The gods refuse to answer. |>| wesf@mail.utexas.edu | They refuse because they do not know. |>| http://adhoc.com.inter.net/ | --W. A. Dwiggins |>-------------------------------------------------------------------------Sincerely, Ken Grome ..... ken@iav.comhttp://usarea.net/home.html
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