Re: Any real speed advantage with dual Xeon processors?

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From: Paul (paule_at_nospam-mindspring.com)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:40:17 -0400

> The other thing that may be worth considering is a P4 Hyperthreading CPU.

Xeons by their nature are hyperthreaded, I beleive - on my dual Xeon server,
I have four "CPUs" running. Another benefit is that an errant task that
would normally eat 100% of CPU and bring the server to it's knees can only
take 25% max and the server keeps humming along....

-- Paul

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