--- "Justin C. Sherrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 11:20 am, Danial Thom > wrote: > > > > I guess I should have qualified my question. > If > > you're pushing less than 100Kb/s then there's > > really no reason to spend 3X the dollars on a > > multi-core system. So the only real value of > an > > MP system is how it performs under heavy > load, if > > you're talking about a server and not a > desktop > > box. > > Is there a certain specific setup and threshold > you are looking for? > Like, performance of DragonFly with an MP > kernel on a multi-core processor > on a system acting as a firewall with traffic > at level X? (Guessing from > your writing above) > > At this point I'm looking for someone using it on *any* server running at levels that might justify using MP. The entire point of MP, on a server anyway, is to get better performance than you can on a UP server. So I guess the criteria is whether anyone is running a server that pushes the envelope of what a UP server can do, even if its just once and a while. Stability at 10% utilization and stability at 50-60% utilization are very different animals. Of course if you can tell me that its not really ready for a serious production environment then that's enough information right there, which was the general sentiment 6 months ago. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com