Multiple CPU Performance

[Kevin Stevens]

On Nov 26, 2003, at 13:58, Gerard Samuel wrote:

> I was fortunate to acquire a dual Slot one motherboard.
> I currently only have one PIII 450 in there, and its working without 
> any
> problems so far.
> This box is primarily for www/samba/cvs.
> I was wondering if my PHP apps would benefit (run faster) if I
> introduced a 2nd CPU.

No single program thread will run faster than it would on an unladen 
single-processor machine.  You would gain more in terms of how many 
threads could run concurrently.  In other words: more, not faster.

KeS