From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 17 23:55:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C8E716A40F for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B9C13C459 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:55:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so22545uge for ; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:08 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jllnMqiD77X+cSzXdmUCSpIYCE454dTtEIZqwQ3otbfV50XFJROhNLrdR8H/zAF84R1vnvjU8udRQBDZZ4wgAIJ4bRDUdbg883zwvS6Eb4POXy90fapcXWICWxEpBplM0Mbp65N5IfFcM4IXNWj8uIJ0sSt9yxIzhbnCE0+f/wg= Received: by 10.78.193.19 with SMTP id q19mr204740huf.1169078108063; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.107.2 with HTTP; Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d710000701171555w506dfc7dq874618a4353af2f8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:08 -0800 From: "pete wright" To: "Garrett Cooper" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070117142404.43699e39@localhost> <57d710000701171155v29201bc5s96dfb0584cd5143f@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duo core question 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: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:55:10 -0000 On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: > > > On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > >> thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) > >> > >> so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really > >> "feel" it?? > >> > > > > i think you really need to figure out how you are going to be using > > the system. if you are running a farm of machines running > > multi-threaded app's then i'd say yes - multi-core systems are a > > benefit (as you get more core's to run threads on w/o generating as > > much heat and eating as much power as a second cpu socket). > > > > if you are running heavily multi-threaded desktop apps, i'd say yes - > > it may be helpful for similar reasons mentioned above. > > > > if you are using your desktop like %90 of unix people out there > > (web/mail and ssh'ing into servers) i'm not sure having two cores (let > > alone multiple CPU's) is worth the price. > > Assuming you're not operating some sort of high-volume web/mail apps :). > -Garrett sure, although i can't think of any multi-threaded MUA's or web browsers out there.... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group