CPU Affinity, was RE: [Zope] Linux vs. UNIX vs. BSD

Matthew T. Kromer matt@zope.com
Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:48:00 -0400


Tim Hoffman wrote:

>Thats what Solaris is for ;-) Processor affinity, processor sets, fair
>share scheduler etc.... 
>
>Rgds
>
>Tim
>  
>

The downside of Solaris is that Python executes more or less at the same 
speed on all CPUs, primarily determined by clock speed.  Thus, a 2 Ghz 
Pentium IV or Athlon blows away expensive SPARC CPUs for running Zope.

-- 
Matt Kromer
Zope Corporation  http://www.zope.com/