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Date:      Fri, 9 May 2008 11:40:59 -0700
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load
Message-ID:  <9F98C32F-0DA0-40F9-B82B-4866F3D600CB@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <482473B7.7070707@pixelhammer.com> <48248AC9.5060507@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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On May 9, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> 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?

For single-processor systems, FreeBSD 4.11 does very well at a lot of  
tasks.  However, Dave apparently has a 4-CPU system (~8 threads if he  
enabled hyperthreading), and for real SMP hardware, more recent  
versions of FreeBSD generally perform better than 4.x would.

-- 
-Chuck




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