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Originally Posted by KnightElite
With a dual CPU system, if you are running multiple programs, the OS is smart enough to spread out the different processes amongst the different CPUs. So, say you are running a game, it might max out one CPU, but the other CPU would still be free to run the FTP server, or whatever the case might be.
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Yep, you can have your game running on Processor 0 and the FTP server running on Processor 1, but unless you have a much more expensive board which has separate RAM banks for each processor, and the RAM to fill both sets of DIMMs, and the FTP files on a HDD on a different controller than the HDD that the game is on, you're going to run into slowdowns when one wants to access something the other is using, and even if you do go out of your way to address these issues, you aren't going to be able to beat two systems for performance in this case. (power efficiency is another matter, but you don't care about that
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You can throw money and faster components in, minimizing the drain that the FTPing places on your system, but you can't fully eliminate the issue unless you move it to a separate box.