Does Discourse scale well with cores?

[fzngagan (Faizaan Gagan)]

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How much is Discourse affected by a faster CPU?

Checking CPU scaling of the new box with i7z and stress. Reminder this is the i7-8750H with 6 cores, 12 threads, 45W TDP. Here’s one task hogging CPU with stress --cpu 1, we definitely see 4100 Mhz as promised: [image] Starting with ~10w power consumption with i7z running but nothing else. Let’s exercise us some cores! typical clock watts stress --cpu 1 4.1 Ghz 30w stress --cpu 2 4.1 Ghz 42w stress --cpu 3 4.0 Ghz 53w stress --cpu 4 3.9 Ghz 65w* stress --cpu 5 3.7 Ghz 65w* …