RE: Spare server...

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

Win 2K *Professional* supports 2 processors
Win 2K *server* supports 4 processors (Max 4GB RAM)
Win 2K *Advanced Server* supports 8 processors (Max 8GB RAM)
Win 2K *Datacenter Server* supports 32 processors (Max 32GB RAM)

... I have copies of *all* of them here.... ;-)


If the application you are using is multi-threaded, then likely it will
take 
advantage of multiple processors to distribute the threads. If it is a 
single-threaded app, then it will only ever use 1 processor, but will still
benefit from multi-processor use, as the OS itself is multi-threaded and
therefore won't all be running on the same CPU as you application. Indeed,
if you really want to get down & dirty, you can change the
"processor 
affinity" of any process running under win2K such that you can
actually 
partition a processor off solely for use by a sinle app if you want
to...

Paul G.



>OK - next questions for you.
>
>Does the DiVx stuff take advantage of multiple processors? (The box has
4)
>
>If so, which O/S and variant do I need. ISTR that NT4 supported up to
quad,
>but Win2k only supports 2 out of the box?
>
>M.
>


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