Hi,
I don't have any logs to post right now, as when I changed to running 24/7 errors stopped occurring, so to post an stderr file I'll first have to set up everything to recreate the situation. Give me a couple of days.

Thanks,
Matman

Don't worry about it ;)

Intel is not the only one that uses virtual cores; so does Oracle. Oracle pushes the envelope even further and is doing 8 to 16 threads per physical core. When a CPU is at 100% utilization, it really isn’t. It spends a lot of time waiting for data to process; this is where threading comes in. So while physical cores have their advantages, so do virtual cores. You get more with less; work smarter, not harder.

Take one of my latest machines. If I compare it to your Phenom 9850; yours has a benchmark of 2,914 with a single thread rating of 848. My latest machine is 11,909 with a single thread rating of 1505. It is 16 threads and 8 cores with a TDP of 45 watts; far lower than your 125 watt. So it takes about 1/3 less power and over 4 times the processing power. Threads help increase the performance per watt.

For comparison sakes; the Phenom II 1090T has a benchmark of 5682 and a single thread performance 1223.
If we take your 8 core processor with 8 threads. It has a benchmark of 10262 with a single thread rating of 1721. So on a single thread you have a slight advantage but overall I have the advantage thanks to the additional threads keeping the cores busy. My processor is newer than yours though. Yours is from Q2 2013 compared to Q1 2016. The predecessor of mine is from Q2 2015 and it has similar performance and the same power envelope. The benchmark of it is 10883 with a single thread performance of 1399. It runs at 2.0GHz whereas the new model (what I have) runs at 2.1GHz. The processor I’m talking about is the Xeon D-1540 and D-1541. For comparison sake, I could run 4 to 5 D-1541 systems in the power envelope of your biggest rig.

If I ran your biggest rig 24x7 it would cost about $1 per day compared to about $0.18 per day for a D-1541. In the course of a year that would be $345 to $65. That wouldn’t include the cooling costs either; all that heat is great in the winter but would be a killer in the summer.