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

[Bob Bishop]

Hi,

FWIW, we are seeing 2 x quad-core 2.66GHz outperform (per core) 2 x  
dual-core 3GHz on the same type of m/b, apparently because of better  
bandwidth to memory. However, this is on a compute-intensive workload  
running 1 job per core so would be pretty insensitive to scheduler/ 
locking issues.

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