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Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:38:35PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>  I think that is the wrong question..
>>  the question is "why do we drop off after 8?"
>>  which I'm sure Jeff is already working on.
> 
> Actually since the workbench has been run on an 8-core amd64 and that
> both Linux and FreeBSD drop here, I thought it was natural to get the
> best performance with 8 threads...  Am I wrong?

The ideal situation would be to reach a peak at 8 and stay there.

> Regards,