From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 10:21:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3155C16A4DD for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocado.salatschuessel.net (avocado.salatschuessel.net [80.86.187.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 584B843D1F for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:21:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lehmann@ans-netz.de) Received: (qmail 94837 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 18:20:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO kartoffel.salatschuessel.net) (80.86.187.43) by avocado.salatschuessel.net with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 18:20:56 -0000 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 19:21:03 +0100 From: Oliver Lehmann To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040223192103.59ad7b69.lehmann@ans-netz.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Bad performance on alpha? (make buildworld) X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 18:21:11 -0000 Hi, I run several buildworld's on both, an Alpha EV56 and a Intel PII. I'm wondering that the Pentium beats the Alpha. Both systems have INVARIANTS* and WITNESS* disabled. Furthermore, no special tweakups - nearly "out of the box" configured. Alpha EV45, 600MHz, single CPU 768MB RAM UW-SCSI SEAGATE ST34573W 6244 running: 5.2.1-RC2 (15th Feb 2004) building: 5.2.1-RC2 (15th Feb 2004) /usr/src ufs, /usr/obj ufs make buildworld 19808.17 real 17126.29 user 1965.42 sys make -j2 buildworld 20085.05 real 17314.00 user 2139.92 sys make -j3 buildworld 20182.12 real 17467.14 user 2175.41 sys ######################################################################## Intel PII, 333MHz, single CPU 256MB RAM UDMA33 WDC AC26400R running: 5.2-CURRENT (20th Feb 2004) building: 5.2.1-RC2 (15th Feb 2004) /usr/src ufs, /usr/obj ufs make buildworld 16916.70 real 14185.83 user 2028.82 sys make -j2 buildworld 16991.71 real 14445.95 user 2201.29 sys make -j3 buildworld 17042.71 real 14532.71 user 2235.48 sys make -j4 buildworld 17171.15 real 14583.99 user 2242.81 sys And I don't think CURRENT is that "faster" than 5.2.1. Why does (my) alpha performs so bad? Some ideas? Is that behaviour common for FreeBSD/alpha or did I missed something in my consideration? -- Oliver Lehmann http://www.pofo.de/ http://wishlist.ans-netz.de/