From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 9 18:57:24 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 AEBC0106566B for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 18:57:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from smtp1.tls.net (smtp1.tls.net [65.196.224.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524A98FC0C for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 18:57:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 26023 invoked from network); 9 May 2008 18:57:18 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.2.3 ppid: 25992, pid: 26017, t: 0.3309s scanners: attach: 1.2.3 clamav: 0.91.1/m:45/d:6125 spam: 3.2.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.1 (2007-05-02) on smtp1.tls.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=20.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,TVD_RCVD_IP autolearn=disabled version=3.2.1 Received: from 64-184-10-3.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.1.46?) (ldg%tls.net@64.184.10.3) by auth-smtp1.tls.net with ESMTPA; 9 May 2008 18:57:18 -0000 Message-ID: <48249E0A.8080709@pixelhammer.com> Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:55:06 -0400 From: DAve User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions References: <482473B7.7070707@pixelhammer.com> <48248AC9.5060507@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080509202941.J53368@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <9F98C32F-0DA0-40F9-B82B-4866F3D600CB@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <9F98C32F-0DA0-40F9-B82B-4866F3D600CB@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:57:24 -0000 Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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. Single CPU quad core. ps -aux output is up, look under the FBSD dir. I also put up both dmesg.boot files from the servers. http://pixelhammer.com/Dan/ I do appreciate the assistance. DAve -- In 50 years, our descendants will look back on the early years of the internet, and much like we now look back on men with rockets on their back and feathers glued to their arms, marvel that we had the intelligence to wipe the drool from our chins.