Performance comparison: multi core processors vs single core

3Stripes

Are there any performance indicators for Mediabin vis-a-vis the type of CPU's used?

lyman

The most literal answer is "no" but I can give some heuristics. First, given a finite budget, I would tend to throw more resources at ones database server first. One should always strive to have the web server, MB server and DB server on separate machines. Beyond that, more memory is usually a more cost-effective improvement than more processors.

That being said, MediaBin is a highly multithreaded application and will seamlessly take advantage of multiple cores. We generally recommend as an heuristic setting MaxConcurrentJobs to 2x the number of physical processors.

Hope this helps,

Lyman Hurd