Re: Excessive context switching on SMP Xeons

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