Linux 2.6 And Hyper-Threading

David Peters writes "2CPU.com has posted an article on Hyper-Threading performance in Linux. They use Gentoo 1.4 and kernel 2.6.2 and run through several server-oriented benchmarks like Apache, MySQL and even Java server performance with Blackdown 1.4. The hardware they use in the tests is border-line ridiculous (3.2GHz Xeons, 3.2GHz P4 and P4 Prescott) and the results are actually quite interesting. It's a good read as he even takes the time to detail his system configuration all the way down to the CFLAGS used while compiling the software."

Comments

Money?

[dJCL]

OK, he cannot afford to buy a benchmark, but he has a trio of top of the line Intel systems to play with! WTF? Either he has a weird idea of money well spent, or someone has a lucrative agreement with the hardware vendors. I'm guessing the latter, and really wish I could write well enough to sucker them into sending me cool hardware to play with.

I'll live with my 2800+(2.133Ghz) AMD MP(only one for now, I'll upgrade when I need it) I'm running Seti, playing music, encoding DVD's and sometimes messing with the UT2004 demo and not even noticing it...

On another note, when do the PCI express test systems come out? I'd love to see some benchmarks on those as the pci performance for my secondary and tertiary video cards is below par. PCI express is supposed to allow multiple high speed video cards.

Anyway.