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To: Elmer who wrote (69865)	8/25/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576159

<This article disagrees with you.> The article talks about Profusion SMP. I was talking about GTL+ SMP. Kap

To: Elmer who wrote (69865)	8/25/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576159

Re: Performance for the eight-ways I doubt we'll really know (if ever) until there are more controlled tests done. I'd rather see a comparison to a one or two processor server than 8-way vs. 4-way. There have been some appalling configurations of 4-way NT servers presented in the past. I'm suspicious of the 8-way more than doubling performance of the 4-way on 2000. I don't doubt that's what was observed, but it may that they never had the opportunity to compare equivalent systems. (eg W2k beta 1 on the 4-way vs W2k RC1 on the 8-way if that was what was available when each system was set up) Dan