From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 10 21:56:30 2008 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 A19C5106564A for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F48E8FC13 for ; Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D2871CD4A; Sat, 10 May 2008 13:56:29 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 23:56:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <482473B7.7070707@pixelhammer.com> <4824CEE7.6070605@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20080510090439.U58698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080510090439.U58698@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805102356.28171.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Wojciech Puchar , DAve Subject: Re: FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load 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: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:30 -0000 On Saturday 10 May 2008 09:10:37 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> and what most unix users do. > > > > It is what a lot of unix users have done historically, but now that there > > is > > and still most do. > > > It's not a "Unix way" versus "Other OS Way" thing -- its a response to > > the change > > in direction hardware development has taken over the past several years. > > Chip > > on multichip hardware you can do many different things too - even faster > as it's spread over cores. Do you realize your own arguments are in favor of moving to 7.x? Since the concurrency on 7.x with ULE has improved so much more, running multiprogram pipelines or completely different programs will improve as well. And as a bonus you get improved threading for the programs that use them. Secondly, the unix way would be the way that scales best and in practice, machines dedicated to one task scale easier then machines that do it all, especially since you can tune the hardware and kernel. Thirdly, unix also got big, because it was able to split one task over multiple machines. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.