Howard Hansen wrote:
From recent discussions, it appears that Zope doesn't benefit much from a dual processor system, but it does benefit from higher clock rates and more RAM. So should I invest in a faster single-proc system with a couple of gigs of RAM, or go with a slower dual-proc box?
I wouldn't state it this way. From what I read from various posts, there's a subtle difference to what you said. - A system which has more daemon processes running than zope (likely) can profit from multiprocessor configs, because the processes will spread across processors. - There is a problem with mulitproc configs when the zope process wanders between procs (cache coherency and whatnot), so the os having the possibitilty to restrict process to single processors is a big advantage. cheers, oliver