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Subject: Re: A 7 vs 8 db benchmark
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> writes:
> 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.

Were the benchmarks run with or without the topology patch?  If without,
could you ask the author to re-run them with the patch?

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