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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:13:37 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Cc:        Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alexey Popov <lol@chistydom.ru>
Subject:   Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <47434E01.8020004@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <97FEA818-B54F-4981-A0A4-440D1DF5AB7A@gid.co.uk>
References:  <4741905E.8050300@chistydom.ru>	<fhs3s5$knj$1@ger.gmane.org>	<47419AB3.5030008@chistydom.ru>	<fhs7hp$2es$2@ger.gmane.org>	<4741A7DA.2050706@chistydom.ru> <4741DA15.9000308@FreeBSD.org>	<47429DB8.7040504@chistydom.ru> <4742ADFE.40902@FreeBSD.org>	<4742C46A.1060701@chistydom.ru> <47432F77.3030606@FreeBSD.org> <97FEA818-B54F-4981-A0A4-440D1DF5AB7A@gid.co.uk>

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Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FWIW, we are seeing 2 x quad-core 2.66GHz outperform (per core) 2 x 
> dual-core 3GHz on the same type of m/b, apparently because of better 
> bandwidth to memory. However, this is on a compute-intensive workload 
> running 1 job per core so would be pretty insensitive to 
> scheduler/locking issues.

Alexey's problem is pretty specific to filesystem performance.  Good to 
hear though :)

Kris




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