Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:28:44 -0600 From: Matt Hartzell <mchartzell@getdts.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My new DL360 G4P just arrived ... Message-ID: <1136903324.741.3.camel@dts-ws-2.hsd1.tx.comcast.net.> In-Reply-To: <20060110001943.H1088@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060110001943.H1088@ganymede.hub.org>
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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 00:22 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 'k, I'm a bit confused, since I didn't quite get what I was looking for, > but it was what I ordered *sigh* And, in fact, might actually be what I > want without realizing it ... > > basically, I wanted a Dual Xeon server ... got a Single one ... looking at > the HP web site, though, I see: > > "Powerful HP ProLiant DL360 G4p is now available Dual-core 2.8GHz Intel > Xeon processors that offer 22MB L2 cache and 64-bit support." > > Does this mean that my CPUs *are* Dual-Core, or just that I can order them > that way? > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The DL360 is dual processor capable. However there is huge difference between dual processor and dual core. To use dual core processors it is my understanding you must use hyper-threading - which based on everything I have read actually hurts performance, and is potential security threat.
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