I just ran a test on 6_stable (April 5th) on a Dell 2850 dual CPU
(single core 3.60GHz) using the AMD64 build of FreeBSD and got similar
speeds as you.
Its interesting how Sven could have 8 cores with what appears to be less
MySQL speed then just having a few cores.
After enabling libthr it does
> here are ktrace results for supersmack and mysqld from a dualcore opteron box
> running select smack with 100 threads and 1 queries
> os: fbsd 6.1 prerelease
>
> syscall stats for supersmack
> number of syscalls captured: 42575687
> individual syscalls counts:
>read 32914539
