Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:22:03 -0400 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit CPUs Message-ID: <17014.14219.963494.753741@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501193659.05483bd0@64.7.153.2> References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050501094429.06974910@64.7.153.2> <42750861.8000509@mac.com> <6.2.1.2.0.20050501193659.05483bd0@64.7.153.2>
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>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> writes: Mike> Thanks! I was worried I was missing something obvious in all Mike> the 64bit excitement. For my apps where I cant balance across Mike> multiple machines or where space is an issue, dual core CPUs I Mike> think might be more interesting to look at in a few months. Hi Mike! Anyways, we've been finding that raw packet passing is significantly better on some of the newer tyan opteron boards. But then that may have as much to do with them shipping with multiple independant PCI-X slots than the opterons themselves. Memory bandwidth probably doesn't hurt, either. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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