FBSD 6.2 Xeon 2.4ghz CPU and high load

[DAve]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>> FreeBSD 6.2 is I believe slower than 4.11 for single processor systems
>> and processes which pretty much run single threaded -- ie. exactly what
>> you're trying to run.  This would cause exactly the sort of symptoms 
>> you're
>> seeing.
> 
> and what most unix users do.
> 
>> Try 7.0 instead -- it has all of the speed at multi-threaded, multi-core
>> type stuff but has also regained the sort of performance levels you could
> 
> so 4.11 is fastest?

I would be inclined to try another version if I knew what the cause of 
this issue was exactly, and I saw in the release notes that the issue 
was resolved in 7.X. But I cannot just try a new version on a production 
server as an experiment. I've hosed this up enough thinking 6.2 was out 
long enough to not surprise me.

I've not compared them on any server running multiple CPUs, but on a 
single physical CPU server I've yet to see 5.X or 6.X keep up with 4.X. 
I've been poo poo'd heartily for saying so, more than once.

I would hope, and I do think, this is easily solved. I've already had 
one private email stating a binary upgrade to 6.3 solved the same 
problem for them. I wish I could find that email again 8^(

DAve


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