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Subject: Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core
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Pete French wrote:
>> That almost certainly has nothing to do with how many CPUs your system 
>> has, since rm -rf is a single process running on a single core.
> 
> Well, yes, common sense would also tell me that. But the systems should
> be identical aside from the number of cores. Both installed off 7.0-BETA3
> CD's today, configured identically, same files pushed to them.

So what are the other non-CPU hardware differences?

Kris