Hello,
So we users servers to transcode media into H264 and we were pleased with 2xE5520 performance on Dell R610 we saw in one of the workshops. We decided to buy R710 as we needed some PCIe space.
Placed an order for R710 with 1xE5504 and got myself 2xE5520 that i installed. Fired it up, loaded necessary software and that's when disappointment started knocking on the door. With R610 we saw 40 transcoding processes and htop was showing 90% load on all cores. With this server, 21 is maximum i can do with about the same load. It seems to me like one of the processors is not taking the load and that results in performance to be 50% of what we were expecting?
Not very server savvy could I have possibly missed something? Settings in BIOS? RAM configuration for 2 CPU>?