Re: Excessive context switching on SMP Xeons

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Alan Stange <stange(at)rentec(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Excessive context switching on SMP Xeons
Date: 2004-10-06 23:48:22
Message-ID: 41648446.5020102@bigfoot.com
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Alan Stange wrote:
> A few quick random observations on the Xeon v. Opteron comparison:

[SNIP]

> I don't care to go into the whole debate of Xeon v. Opteron here. We
> also have a lot of dual Xeon systems. In every comparison I've done with
> our codes, the dual Opteron clearly outperforms the dual Xeon, when
> running on one and both cpus.

Here http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/ both were tested and there is
a database performance section, unfortunatelly they used MySQL.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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