Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread YSC
if you want dual core + ht you gotta buy intel extream cpu ( dual core + ht = 4cpu) On 5/12/06, Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think intel chips with dual core don't have hyperthreading. The operating system sees the second core like it would with hyperthreading only. On May 11, 200

Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets ( UNIX domain sockets )

2006-05-11 Thread David Xu
On Friday 12 May 2006 01:58, Robert Watson wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Scott Long wrote: > >> So I guess the real question is: do we want to merge the UNIX domain > >> socket locking work? The MySQL gains sound good, the performance drop > >> under very high load seems problematic, and there are

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread Achim Patzner
i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1, when i compile with SMP... You would need a Pentium Extreme (840, 955 or 965) for this. And quite a bit of cash. Achim ___ freebsd-performance@

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread OxY
930 is perfect, fast enough, no need to spend more money, thanks :) - Original Message - From: "Achim Patzner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 8:16 PM Subject: Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core i just bought an Intel

Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Scott Long wrote: So I guess the real question is: do we want to merge the UNIX domain socket locking work? The MySQL gains sound good, the performance drop under very high load seems problematic, and there are more general questions about performance with other workload

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread Shane Ambler
On 12/5/2006 1:30, "OxY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi! > > i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) > and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1, when i compile with SMP... > > sysctl says: > machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 0 > > is it right or i should see CPU 2 and 3 starting during

Re: enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread Lucas Holt
I think intel chips with dual core don't have hyperthreading. The operating system sees the second core like it would with hyperthreading only. On May 11, 2006, at 12:00 PM, OxY wrote: hi! i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1

Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

2006-05-11 Thread Scott Long
Robert Watson wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006, David Xu wrote: Fixing one of big lock contentions is not enough, you have to fix them all, it is easy to see that a second contention becomes a top one. :-) So I guess the real question is: do we want to merge the UNIX domain socket locking work?

enabling hyper-threading on intel dual-core

2006-05-11 Thread OxY
hi! i just bought an Intel Pentium D-930 (3ghz dual-core) and wonder why i just only have CPU0 and CPU1, when i compile with SMP... sysctl says: machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 0 is it right or i should see CPU 2 and 3 starting during the boot? thanks for your help! ps: i even compiled this option in ke

Re: Fine-grained locking for POSIX local sockets (UNIX domain sockets)

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 10 May 2006, David Xu wrote: Fixing one of big lock contentions is not enough, you have to fix them all, it is easy to see that a second contention becomes a top one. :-) So I guess the real question is: do we want to merge the UNIX domain socket locking work? The MySQL gains sound