Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:07:21 +0100 From: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com> To: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Scaling on 6.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <b41c75520702230607x50031450x10931b7f661215a4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0e2001c7574c$26bc15a0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <0e2001c7574c$26bc15a0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk>
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> I'm looking at new machines for high access forums / DB > and wonder if anyone has any experience with how well > FreeBSD specifically 6.2 scales on Dual Quad Core Intel's. > > We have some Dual Dual Core's here but I'm considering > the Quad Core upgrade but am a little concerned that > this may start to become OS limited given the 8 Cores. > > The software we will be running is vBulletin so apache + > php and mysql. > > Does anyone have any experience / results they can share? Just read http://osnews.com/story.php/17342/Breakthrough-in-MySQL-Performance-on-FreeBSD where FreeBSD shows very promising performance on more than 4 cpu's running mysql. (But) the results are based on current (7.0). This can be proven stable "enough" though if the server can be exposed to real-world traffic. regards Claus
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