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From: dhepner@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dan Hepner)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: MP servers
Message-ID: <13520003@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 18:43:51 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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From: forrest@phobos.sybase.com (Jon Forrest)
>>> 
>>> One of the strong points of the Sybase architecture is that we
>>> require only one operating system process per Server.
>>
>>Could you comment on if or how this model affects Sybase's
>>ability to exploit multiple processor architectures?
>
>Instead of replying to this perfectly reasonable question, I'll
>defer to descriptions you'll see in the future about our MP product.

Maybe you could discuss the abstract question, without offering
any claims about any Sybase product.

It would seem to the naive that in an MP system, assuming that
performance was limited by the CPU cycles available to the server,
that you would want your server to consist of at least one OS process 
per processor.

Are there alternatives?

Dan Hepner