I read this literally "On a CMT machine like the SunFire T5220 server, ..." so I did not think of configuring it for the T1000. I'll try it.
Also according to the blog 1 acceptor per 1-4 CPUs/"cores" this is true. I put 2 acceptor threads and I saw drastic reduction in performance. The worker threads are at 6. Again as per the article 1 per CPU. I have the 6 core 1Ghz T1000.
The other thing I will investigate is trying to find a biger client machine or use several ones.
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