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Subject: Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
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> FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems
> and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what
> you're trying to run.  This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms you're
> seeing.

and what most unix users do.

> Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core
> type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could

so 4.11 is fastest?