From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 18:41:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F292106564A for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 18:41:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C948FC0A for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 18:40:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay14.apple.com (relay14.apple.com [17.128.113.52]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD29C2C6FB4F; Fri, 9 May 2008 11:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay14.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay14.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id A58232808E; Fri, 9 May 2008 11:40:59 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807134-a76cabb000000ed7-c9-48249abb66ca Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) by relay14.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 75AFF280A3; Fri, 9 May 2008 11:40:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <9F98C32F-0DA0-40F9-B82B-4866F3D600CB@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Wojciech Puchar In-Reply-To: <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 11:40:59 -0700 References: <482473B7.7070707@pixelhammer.com> <48248AC9.5060507@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: User Questions Subject: Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 18:41:00 -0000 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