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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 07:35:09PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Some more ideas: How is your disk load (iostat, systat -vm, diskinfo -t)
> during the load? You don't use NFS for the web directories, do you?

Don't forget about gstat(8), which (if the issue is an I/O bottleneck)
may help pinpoint what particular disk device is being utilised too
heavily.

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