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Date:      Sat, 14 Sep 2002 02:03:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: A riddle in -current
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209140201430.82711-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209140030490.28545-100000@root.org>

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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Nate Lawson wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > 2 identical machines.
> > the same kernel binary
> > /etc (basically) identical (/etc/passwd slightly different)
> > the same system sources compiled and installed
> > 
> > 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...
> 
> Do they have the same kernel modules loaded?  Same BIOS settings?
As I said.. exactly the same setup

the BIOS doesn't give any posibilities to change anything I 
can imagine changing this..



> 
> -Nate
> 
> 


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