On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:24 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/08/12 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > I know there might be some negative performance issues with certain > > applications, but would you notice it in day-to-day use? > > if you're using the server for pure floating point compute, don't run > more threads than you have actual cores. high concurrency server > workloads that aren't IO bound generally benefit quite a lot from using > hyperthreads to double the number of active workers. the HT on the > X5600 and such newer Xeons is quite a lot better than the old > netburst/p4 architecture where the benefits were marginal in many cases. > > > > Hi Pierce This servers would be used for MySQL DB purpose. I suppose it would be IO bound instead of CPU cycles. Please help me understand. Regards Kaushal > -- > john r pierce N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca mid-left coast > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos