From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 14:28:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B14B16A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mchartzell@getdts.com) Received: from smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E371843D45 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mchartzell@getdts.com) Received: (qmail 17463 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2006 14:28:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (mchartzell@sbcglobal.net@67.163.122.242 with plain) by smtp108.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 10 Jan 2006 14:28:05 -0000 From: Matt Hartzell To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20060110001943.H1088@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060110001943.H1088@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:28:44 -0600 Message-Id: <1136903324.741.3.camel@dts-ws-2.hsd1.tx.comcast.net.> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My new DL360 G4P just arrived ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mchartzell@getdts.com List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:28:07 -0000 On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 00:22 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 'k, I'm a bit confused, since I didn't quite get what I was looking for, > but it was what I ordered *sigh* And, in fact, might actually be what I > want without realizing it ... > > basically, I wanted a Dual Xeon server ... got a Single one ... looking at > the HP web site, though, I see: > > "Powerful HP ProLiant DL360 G4p is now available Dual-core 2.8GHz Intel > Xeon processors that offer 22MB L2 cache and 64-bit support." > > Does this mean that my CPUs *are* Dual-Core, or just that I can order them > that way? > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The DL360 is dual processor capable. However there is huge difference between dual processor and dual core. To use dual core processors it is my understanding you must use hyper-threading - which based on everything I have read actually hurts performance, and is potential security threat.