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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?
> 
> 
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> Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
> Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664
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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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