From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 14 2:16:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5478A37B422 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.FreeBSD.org.uk [194.242.157.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ABD54422F for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 01:30:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (uucp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8E8UE2G006153; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:30:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with UUCP id g8E8UE0e006152; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:30:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from grimreaper.grondar.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grimreaper.grondar.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8E8Sw7s051677; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:28:59 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark@grimreaper.grondar.org) Message-Id: <200209140828.g8E8Sw7s051677@grimreaper.grondar.org> To: Julian Elischer Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: A riddle in -current References: In-Reply-To: ; from Julian Elischer "Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:19:26 PDT." Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 09:28:58 +0100 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 2 identical machines. > the same kernel binary > /etc (basically) identical (/etc/passwd slightly different) > the same system sources compiled and installed /etc "basically" identical? What does diff say? What is being launched on each from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh ? What are the (any?) diffs between the /boot/loader.conf's? M > yet: > > one is 10% faster than the other CONSISTANTLY in buildworld > > after a reboot and 5 minutes of the EXACT same work (buildworld up to > the following message:) > -------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> stage 2: cleaning up the object tree > -------------------------------------------------------------- > the slower machine shows in top: > > last pid: 3079; load averages: 0.01, 0.19, 0.14 up 0+00:13:02 > 06:13:55 > 24 processes: 1 running, 14 sleeping, 9 stopped > CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.2% > idle > Mem: 18M Active, 106M Inact, 27M Wired, 124K Cache, 35M Buf, 94M Free > Swap: 513M Total, 513M Free > > > while the faster machine shows: > last pid: 3079; load averages: 0.00, 0.15, 0.13 up 0+00:13:25 > 06:15:55 > 24 processes: 1 running, 14 sleeping, 9 stopped > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6% > idle > Mem: 11M Active, 36M Inact, 24M Wired, 144K Cache, 35M Buf, 174M Free > Swap: 513M Total, 513M Free > > > > Notice in particular the differences in Free and Inactive memory... > > > this is completely reproducible. > > anyone have any thoughts? > I can't think of anything that would affect the vm to this extent.. > > they both start out with 222 MB in the 'free' field. > > > julian > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message