Hi Robert, On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 06:02:10PM +0100, Robert von Bismarck wrote:
[...] > > R410's R710 and R510 all are doing this currently (says my TAM). > > > > I can't say why but I was told it's a "feature" not a "bug". > > Very non-intuitive to me. I can't see why an 8 core server > > defaulting to 4 core makes sense..... > > > > We got two R410 exhibiting the same "feature" here. > It's probably a "feature" for some alternative OS's that require > licensing on a per-core basis. > For higher performance, is it better to have two quad-core acting as > dual-core processors due to bios setting, or one quad-core ? I suppose, the only valid answer is: Do your own benchmarks. It depends on such a lot of factors (data locality, hardware architecture details, cache coherency, bus contention etc. pp) that you simply cannot predict how your particular application will perform. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
