From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 2 14:22:08 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEAF716A4CE for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:22:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ox.eicat.ca (ox.eicat.ca [66.96.30.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EBF043D1D for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 14:22:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by ox.eicat.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 7A19EFB43; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:22:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id CF03F1A09CD; Mon, 2 May 2005 10:22:04 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17014.14219.963494.753741@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:22:03 -0400 To: Mike Tancsa 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> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" XEmacs Lucid cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64bit CPUs X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 14:22:08 -0000 >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Tancsa 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================