FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

[Chuck Swiger]

On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> 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  
>> could
>
> so 4.11 is fastest?

For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of  
tasks.  However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he  
enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent  
versions of FreeBSD generally perform better than 4.x would.

-- 
-Chuck