Is FancyCache single threaded?
Posted: Tue May 28, 2013 9:40 am
I've been doing some tests with E3 and E5 (dual 6-core CPU) servers and been getting poor results on the E5.
I benchmarked the RAM using STREAM (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ref.html) and the E5 seems to need more than 8 threads to get good results while the E3 performs very well even with a single thread. Of course the E5 obliterates the E3 with 16 threads and more.
My question is how many threads does FancyCache use? I suspect that it is single threaded since the difference in performance in CrystalDiskMark (and others) is pretty much the same with the difference in STREAM benchmarks.
I benchmarked the RAM using STREAM (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ref.html) and the E5 seems to need more than 8 threads to get good results while the E3 performs very well even with a single thread. Of course the E5 obliterates the E3 with 16 threads and more.
My question is how many threads does FancyCache use? I suspect that it is single threaded since the difference in performance in CrystalDiskMark (and others) is pretty much the same with the difference in STREAM benchmarks.