From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 21:49:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E75B416A412 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3EB013C459 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:49:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0HLnH4w012909 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49:17 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [128.208.7.63] (pinocchio.dyn.cs.washington.edu [128.208.7.63]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.09) with ESMTP id l0HLnG5H030505 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49:17 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <57d710000701171155v29201bc5s96dfb0584cd5143f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070117142404.43699e39@localhost> <57d710000701171155v29201bc5s96dfb0584cd5143f@mail.gmail.com> X-Gpgmail-State: !signed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:49:17 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-PMX-Version: 5.2.2.285561, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.1.17.133433 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: duo core question 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: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 21:49:18 -0000 On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: > On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: >> thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) >> >> so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really >> "feel" it?? >> > > i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be using > the system. if you are running a farm of machines running > multi-threaded app's then i'd say yes - multi-core systems are a > benefit (as you get more core's to run threads on w/o generating as > much heat and eating as much power as a second cpu socket). > > if you are running heavily multi-threaded desktop apps, i'd say yes - > it may be helpful for similar reasons mentioned above. > > if you are using your desktop like %90 of unix people out there > (web/mail and ssh'ing into servers) i'm not sure having two cores (let > alone multiple CPU's) is worth the price. Assuming you're not operating some sort of high-volume web/mail apps :). -Garrett