Wojciech Puchar wrote:
FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly whatyou're trying to run. This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you'reseeing.
Actually I was mistaken: I saw 4.11 and 2.4GHz Xeon and assumed the OP was using 2004-era hardware. The whole "Quad Core" thing just didn't register.
and what most unix users do.
It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there is good support coming through for highly threaded, parallelized applications, developers are going to write more and users are going to run more applications that exploit that. It's not a "Unix way" versus "Other OS Way" thing -- its a response to the change in direction hardware development has taken over the past several years. Chip manufacturers have all but given up on the race to outdo each other on the MHz or GHz rating of their products. Nowadays it's all about how many CPU cores and how much cache RAM there is on each chip. 4 cores and 8MB is just the lateststep in that evolutionary arms race.
Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you couldso 4.11 is fastest?
It depends very much on the application load you have to support and the sort
of hardware you have available. For the sort of multicore chips that are all
the
rage nowadays, I'd go with 7.0 every time, even running single threaded
applications.
Cheers,
Matthew
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