For Squid the difference is minimal, but having a dual CPU may allow you
to run two Squid's in parallell on the same box thereby cutting down on
the number of needed boxes if you need to scale Squid up more than what
a single CPU can sustain...
Regards
Henrik Nordström
Squid Hacker
"Palmer J.D.F." wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to order 3 new servers.
> I have a quick question.
>
> Should I go for either DUEL 1GHz, or SINGLE 1.13GHz machines. Only £200 UK
> difference.
>
> I read somewhere that the Linux 2.4 kernel has better Multiprocessor support
> so it may be worth going for duel.
> What are your thoughts bearing in mind that these are Squid machines.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jezz Palmer.
Received on Mon Oct 22 2001 - 08:41:26 MDT
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