Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 19:52:14 -0400 From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Not to beat a dead horse, but ... Message-ID: <5394F72E.4080306@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <20140608232203.GN31367@funkthat.com> References: <5394A848.7030609@m5p.com> <CAPS9%2BSuR=F2jCsp=%2BHvU3kaZvTtULZ5D%2BkX-1PZdmHd1RP1RSw@mail.gmail.com> <5394B80A.2030901@m5p.com> <20140608232203.GN31367@funkthat.com>
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On 06/08/14 19:22, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > [...] it turns out that the electricity > savings in a year, paid for the entire cost of the new switch... We > were talking ~$250/year in savings, so, upgrading can end up saving > you money... > Thanks for the advice on what hardware I should run. But why should I believe that upgrading to SMP and running with ULE will make my life better? In fact, when I tried ULE + a six-core system + dnetc + make buildworld, etc., a couple of years ago (I do have one SMP system), the results were just as appalling compared to 4BSD as with a single processor. -- George
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