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- In-Reply-To: <9603292245.AA41456@huey.cadvision.com>
- > I have the option of switching NT workstation computers from a NEC P100
- > to a
- > No-name dual P90. Assuming hard drive and graphics card and ram are the
- > same, will I see any real improvement in Lightwave? Can LW make use of
- > dual
- > processors under NT?
- The only way Lightwave can exploit dual processors is to run *two*
- copies of the Screamernet node. This means that theoretically the max
- performance is twice that of a P90. However this will occur only if both
- machines have an ideal about of available Ram - otherwise both CPUs will
- need to hit virtual memory - which in a dual processor machine is made
- doubly worse by having only one disk to page to.
- Such a machine would ideally need 64Megs of ram.
-
- Glyn Williams
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