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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:18:12AM +0800, David Schulz wrote:
> I have heard it does not scale well above 4

It all depends on your workload.  FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling
on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.:

  http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html

Kris