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To: Patrick Gainer who wrote (3924)	1/2/1998 6:25:00 AM
From: Alexis Cousein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Re: TPC-C and scaling If you're thinking of extending 'it is possible to run TPC-C jobs on an 8 CPU NT machine quite well' to 'these machines scale well to 8 CPUs', you make quite a leap of faith. I always expect some jobs to scale -- and people running TPC-C benchmarks always do an incredible amount of tuning, so I'd expect them to be able to get it right; as another example, I expect it to be fairly easy to e.g. use extra CPUs for geometry processing for gfx. That doesn't mean you can make anything scale, and it certainly dosn't mean you can do it easily. I expect it to become better in the future with NT, an in this respect, I agree with your Solaris example, but we ain't there yet. Nor do I think that it is a matter as trivial as you seem to imply.