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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by z92 on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:19AM (#21546075)
ImageMagick with "multicore" support won't speed things up the moment number of concurrent requests touches the number of cores you have. And in digital ocean's case you have only one core.
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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by slowenough on Friday November 15, 2019 @11:23AM (#21546116)
Actually I created a Droplet with 6 cores
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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by Koshkin on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:25PM (#21546712)
But remember that multi-threading was shown to improve performance in the era of single-core computers.
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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by mlyle on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:21PM (#21547861)
Sure, but if your concurrent number of fully tendered requests at least sometimes dips below the number of cores, it is a big win.

(At the possible cost of top-end scale; improving response to normal workload significantly and hurting the top workload reachable somewhat).

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