A multi-processor savvy WebCatalog?

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1997


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numero = 11417
interpreted = N
texte = Hi Grant,I found this at WebSTAR-Talk, and it made me think about WebCatalog in terms of potential increases in speed in the future. I know you're not ready to do this now, but I saw it so I thought I'd report it here because it 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.com http://usarea.net/home.html Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: A multi-processor savvy WebCatalog? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: A multi-processor savvy WebCatalog? (Nelson Chen 1997)
  3. Re: A multi-processor savvy WebCatalog? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  4. A multi-processor savvy WebCatalog? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
Hi Grant,I found this at WebSTAR-Talk, and it made me think about WebCatalog in terms of potential increases in speed in the future. I know you're not ready to do this now, but I saw it so I thought I'd report it here because it 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.com http://usarea.net/home.html Kenneth Grome

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