From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 16 18:56:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7720916A419 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D883F13C45E for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8GIuZNX066848; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:56:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l8GIuYD1066845; Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:56:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:56:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Maxim Khitrov In-Reply-To: <26ddd1750709141351i3646e9bdg8d8b7e93461167f9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070916205620.K66844@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <26ddd1750709141351i3646e9bdg8d8b7e93461167f9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building a new workstation - dual or quad-core CPU for FreeBSD 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:56:43 -0000 > Windows XP, which will be primarily used for gaming, and FreeBSD 7.0 > for everything else. I wanted to ask if the new ULE scheduler will > benefit from having four cores on the CPU, meaning that if I have many > concurrent tasks, is it able to efficiently spread the load over all > available cores? won't standard schedules do the same?