can MapServer run on multiple cpu machines?

[James Lindstorff]

The single mapserver process will not be able to take advantage of a
multi cpu machine.

On the other hand if it's through put you need more instances of
mapserver can run simultanious om multiple CPU. That is you can serve
for instance two request at the same time, but the single mapserver
instance will not gain anything directly by multiple CPU's.



On 11/21/05, Xin <crazygecko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Can MapServer run on multiple cpu machines?  This would save us some money
> by buying dual cpu machines, rather than single ones.  Since we'll be able
> to have a lot more processing power for less machines.  I was just on the
> phone to people at Rackspace, and they tell me the application has to be
> multithreaded.  Is MapServer multithreaded?
>
>  Also, can mapserver take full advantage of dual cores?  I read somewhere
> that they are different to dual cpus.  Forgive me if they are!
>
>  Appreciate the help.
>
>  Cheers,
>  Xin
>