On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 01:18:12AM +0800, David Schulz wrote: > I have heard it does not scale well above 4 It all depends on your workload. FreeBSD 7.0 will have good scaling on 8 or more CPUs on common workloads, see e.g.: http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/mysql.html Kris