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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:58:39 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core
Message-ID:  <474F0BDF.8070605@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1IxklH-000ElU-3w@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <E1IxklH-000ElU-3w@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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Pete French wrote:
> I think I also just came up against the same effect that the original poster
> saw. I have two sets of machines here - one is a pair of dual core Xeons,
> the other a pair of quad core Xeons. They are HP servers, more or less
> identical apart from the processors I belive.
> 
> Both have 7.0-BETA3 installed, and the same config on them with the
> same files.  I am trying to delete a gigabyte of files using 'rm -rf'
> 
> On the dual core processors this takes about 20 seconds. On the quad
> cores it takes about 3 minutes! This is true for both the 32 and 64 bit
> versions of FreeBSD :-(

That almost certainly has nothing to do with how many CPUs your system 
has, since rm -rf is a single process running on a single core.

Kris




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