Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:56:47 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: should I change to multicore CPU?? Message-ID: <fol7j1$47o$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <f84c38580802090636u2f933d29q622d9a36c4d29e44@mail.gmail.com> References: <f84c38580802090636u2f933d29q622d9a36c4d29e44@mail.gmail.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6112050D82EC02B4EEBD8D53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, > I know that freebsd7 has huge improvement on multi-threading > execution. I wonder if I upgrade to 7, would I feel it?? I now own a > amd64/3400+, running 6.3. It's just personal use, download files, > watch movies, etc. I guess it will be faster on multi-core when I run > mencoder to encode movie, but aside from that, will it mike much > difference to me?? thank you!! No, if you don't need any of the new features in 7.x, you won't feel a=20 difference for the described operations. You don't have enough CPUs or=20 enough programs that do multithreading operations together with IO to=20 notice any difference at all. Some people say they can feel the difference in desktop applications=20 because of the new ULE scheduler, but I very much doubt it, probably a=20 psychological thing :) --------------enig6112050D82EC02B4EEBD8D53 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHriGfldnAQVacBcgRAnscAKDJapr/08JmKPRCK4mLIrpXu2Q1cQCgxyTH yNt5/A1GBucmFnQYOZFsNMg= =0GAf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6112050D82EC02B4EEBD8D53--
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