Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> On 17/11/2010 11:55 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> nemesis wrote:
>>> Aside from embarassingly parallel tasks like raytracing,
>>
>> That and media encoding are the only programs I've used in a decade that
>> peg more than one CPU.
> 
> How about stuff like web servers and database engines? 

Web servers usually use multiple processes. Database engines I suppose if 
your entire database is in RAM would peg the CPUs if you thrashed at it hard 
enough, sure.  I never pegged a database that hard, tho.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Serving Suggestion:
     "Don't serve this any more. It's awful."

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