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Date:      Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:09:10 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Noisex <noisex@apollo.lv>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: performance degradation in 6.2 when adding a second quad	core chip
Message-ID:  <47BF1DD6.90607@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <00d201c8756b$44f3d4c0$cedb7e40$@lv>
References:  <C884D1B7-6D00-4D50-A1D5-FA04F533F757@safarivideonetworks.com>	<47BE0016.6020407@FreeBSD.org>	<2E9A88C1-067C-4C9C-A062-42203F47BF1C@safarivideonetworks.com> <00d201c8756b$44f3d4c0$cedb7e40$@lv>

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Noisex wrote:
> So Benjamin you want to tell, that adding additional CPU decrease the
> performance on 6.2? How did you made tests? 
> 	I just want to know because in my plans to the next week is also add
> 2nd CPU (dual core) and some additional RAM to one of the my HP Proliant
> DL360 (generaly mysql db server) because due to heavy MySQL usage nearly to
> 100% or even more sometimes some of my customers are not very happy with
> service like that (long load time).
> 
> Server: HP proliant G4P DL360, CPU 1x3Ghz dual core, RAM: 4Gb (on system i
> can see 3Gb :) ), SCSI 146Gbx2 (RAID 1+0 with smartarray controller p4600).
> OS: FreeBSD 6.2, SMP

I wouldn't bother with 8 CPUs if you are running 6.x.  As I mentioned, 
7.0 SMP performance is much better.

   http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf

> p.s what you guys could recommend about enabled/disabled hyperthreading on
> intel? Will it increase performance or over the left decrease?

It depends on your workload, it may or may not give a performance 
benefit.  ULE tends to perform better than 4BSD though.

Kris




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