Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at tensor.gdynia.pl
Sat Mar 10 22:41:26 UTC 2007


> It all depends on your workload.  FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling
> on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.:
>
>  http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html
>
> Kris

anyway it's worth to actually test machine before buying.

even for 1 cpu systems lots of crappy motherboards/BIOSES make problems 
with these all "inventions" like interrupt routing etc. ending with 
100Mbit/s network adapter taking 10-20% of fast CPU


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