If you start with "baseline, one-process performance", you're likely to mislead yourself, since no modern server has fewer than eight, and a single-thread benchmark can omit important locks. A modern baseline is probably two to four cores, even if you're running multiple services on one machine.
I think you misunderstand. You start with 1 then test 2, 4, 8… up to the largest core count you can. This shows you where the multi threading arch breaks down.
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If you start with "baseline, one-process performance", you're likely to mislead yourself, since no modern server has fewer than eight, and a single-thread benchmark can omit important locks. A modern baseline is probably two to four cores, even if you're running multiple services on one machine.
I think you misunderstand. You start with 1 then test 2, 4, 8… up to the largest core count you can. This shows you where the multi threading arch breaks down.