Sergey Tsukinovsky wrote:
Just for the record - the hardware that was used for the test has the following parameters: AMD Opteron 2GHZ 2GB RAM LSI Logic SCSI
And you ran FreeBSD 4.4 on it right? This may be a source of high cpu utilization in itself if the box is SMP or dual core, as multi-cpu support was pretty primitive in that release (4.12 would be better if you are required to stick to the 4.x branch, if not the 6.2 is recommended)!
Cheers Mark