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Subject: A 7 vs 8 db benchmark
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This is a bit old, I forgot to post it earlier:

http://suckit.blog.hu/2009/10/05/freebsd_8_is_it_worth_to_upgrade

Some interesting graphs there. Jeff Roberson said the bogus CPU topology 
shouldn't influence end-performance much. He thinks the lockmgr rewrite 
was responsible for most of the big performance difference.