Re: Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-13 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 06:32:41AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > The CPUs between those machines are quite different. I wouldn't say they are "quite" different. It's not like comparing Netburst to Core2, or I believe even original Core2 to Sandybridge. I may be wrong, I've not followed Intel cores

Scaling and performance issues with FreeBSD 9 (& 10) on 4 socket systems

2013-06-12 Thread David O'Brien
Hi all, $WORK is looking to see what throwing money at a build can do. We've been building the product on FreeBSD 8.3/amd64 in a 7.1/i386 jail, on on Supermicro X8DT3 http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/qpi/5500/x8dt3.cfm w/Xeon X5690 3.47GHz: "2 package(s) x 6 core(s) x 2 SMT threads".

Re: Bad performance of 7.0 nfs client with Solaris nfs server

2008-02-22 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:42:45PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Chuck Swiger wrote: > TCP mounts should be used whenever possible thesedays (I flipped the > default mode in 8.0 the other day). And I made TCP mounts the default for Amd over a year ago. NFS really has moved on to TCP these days.

Re: AMD or Intel?

2007-09-12 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:57:32AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > It seems that Broadcom is back into this game. So far the Broadcom Serverworks HT1000 SATA controller is POO. I'm seeing all kinds of disk corruption with FreeBSD on a Tyan s3992. Googling shows that other FreeBSD users have been l

Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

2006-04-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:11:05PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Mike Jakubik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>No! Socket AM2 is the DDR2 939-pin Athlon64 desktop replacement. > >>Socket F(1207) is DDR2 the 940-pin Opteron server replacement. > >> > > > >Same c

Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

2006-04-27 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:30:14PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:43:27PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > > > >>Steven Hartland wrote: > >> > >>>IIRC AM2 is not a server solution just a clie

Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

2006-04-26 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 12:43:27PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: > Steven Hartland wrote: > >IIRC AM2 is not a server solution just a client one the new server > >socket is significantly different. > > Its not a server/desktop thing, its a new socket that will allow AMD to > use DDR2 memory. It appl