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From: Paolo Pedaletti <paolo.pedaletti@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:10:52 +0100
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ciao Vasiliy,

> What is the best for some small vms?
> 2-Xeon E5520 or  1- E5-2620
> Second have more performance but only one. First have less perfarmance..
> What is the best - performance of single cpu or count of cpus with
> less performance?

usually the bottleneck is the storage, not the cpu power
But of course it depends on what your VM have to do...
high cpu calculus?
web server?
mail server?
multimedia streaming?
.............

ciao

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Paolo Pedaletti