Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 01:40:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl <adams@digitalspark.net> To: Kevin Street <street@iname.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911060137260.1233-100000@nightfall.digitalspark.net> In-Reply-To: <87vh7gux8f.fsf@mired.eh.local>
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On 5 Nov 1999, Kevin Street wrote:
> I really had 2 points:
> 1) Dual Celeron's do work pretty well given a good workload
I agree, I'm quite happy with mine :)
> 2) Your assertion that we need more memory bandwidth to go much faster
> on the buildworld - I disagree, or at least I think we have not wrung
> all the SMP performance out of build world that we should. One big
> problem with make -j N is that it does ok at parallelizing the compile
> of large subdirectories with lots of C modules since it starts many
> compiles at once. <SNIP>
Excellent point, I've noticed this, too, I hope these changes can be
eventually commited as this is definatly holding my system back. I see my
second CPU go idle for good chunks of time while its linking something.
Glad to see someone hacking into the problem.
If we fail, we _will_ lose the war -- http://www.mozilla.org/
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