Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:46:20 -0500 From: Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu> To: Joshua Coombs <jcoombs@gwi.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 486DLC Tuning Message-ID: <43514E7C.3000108@cs.earlham.edu> In-Reply-To: <dir2cv$8gf$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <dir2cv$8gf$1@sea.gmane.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Joshua Coombs wrote: > I have a 386 with a Cyrix 486DRx2-66 (clock doubled DLC) that I moved > from 4.11 to 6.0. So far it's running decently, I've got more net/hd > throughput than I had before, by a factor of two for net, but the box > 'feels' like I'm not getting the same cpu perf I had before. Without > benchmarks, I'm not in the best position to prove it, but I figured > I'd try some basic tuning to see if I could improve things. I know SMPng introduces different locking semantics that (for now) reduce CPU performance, but I'm not sure if that only affects SMP boxen or if it also affects uniprocessor boxen as well. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDUU6Bsc4yyULgN4YRAkVzAJ4uhSw+vuFjfgK79SFCj/cb2cC5WgCaAmdq 5o00hB5wHiuNw2VGlX0uMHo= =c1Un -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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