Very Computer

Dual processors will boost performance in almost any environment. The key here is
to find your "slowest" link and improve that. If you have a system that is "busy"
then chances are the dual-processor will increase performance greatly. Our Dual
System supports 50 users and houses our internal databases. Lot's of I/O, lots of
Disk Activity, lots of Network activity and lots of Processes. Our speed increased
by 200%!

Rory.

I am in the process of drawing up a specification for a Pentium 166 based SCO
network. I've got the option of single or dual processor motherboard, but
before I decide I would welcome others experiences.

Does SCO OS5 Enterprise benifit from a second processor, if so what sort of
performance increase could I expect to see?

The machine will have 64MB of ram would I be better off adding more ram rather
than the additional cpu?

Please E-Mail direct in addition to posting.

Many thanks in advance

Ian Mc.

  The CPU performance increase is almost double (depending on motherboard,
etc...) but the performace increase that you would see depends 100% on your
application.  If you are running 1 single application that wasn't designed
for multithreading then you would see no performance increase at all.  If
you are running many applications or an application multitreading then you
would see a performance increase.  
  There are three main items you have to consider when you monitor
performance.  There is CPU, memory, and Disk-usage.  You would have to
monitor all three of these to determin what is important in your system.