2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD

Reko Turja Reko.Turja at liukuma.net
Sat Dec 1 14:36:24 PST 2007


> I use OS Linux on my hosting for web-servers, base for all servers is
> the same m/b S5000PAL ( SR1500), 2 quad kernel cpu  Xeon E5320 or E5345,
> 8Gb RAM. I decided to install FreeBSD 6.2 i386 on one of the servers,

To be a bit mor specific with my previous reply, in order to use SCHED_ULE
you need to be running 7.x (which is quite stable already even being a  
beta.

And of course with 64 bit hardware it's best to run amd64 version of the  
OS.

-Reko


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