I don't have an answer for you, but its a great question!

The bptm processes eat a considerable portion of my (Solaris) server.  
The more concurrent streams, the more bptm processes.  With 40-50 
streams, my cpus are maxed out.

How did you come to choose 5000 over 5100 series?

cheers, wayne

Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) wrote, in part,  on 9/22/2006 3:00 PM:
> I'm speccing servers etc and management ever wanting so pinch a penny
> wants to know how important dual processors are.  Not only is there the
> added server expense, but both Windows and NBU licenses for multiple
> processors are more expensive.  We're looking at Intel Dual Core Xeon
> 5060s w/ 2x2MB Cache, 3.2Ghz, 1066Mhz FSB on a Dell Power Edge 2950 w/
> 4GB RAM.  I originally spec'd two processors (two dual cores) which I'm
> certain will be quite powerful enough to drive 4 Gigabit nics to disk
> over fiber.  But how important is it, and can 1 do the job?  Anyone
> running anything similar?
>