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At 11:20 AM 12/23/2008, Ivan Voras wrote:

>I just thought of another thing - can you boot an 8-CURRENT kernel 
>on the machine and report the value of kern.sched.topology_spec 
>sysctl? This is to verify how the ULE sees the HTT topology of the CPUs.


And buildworld from current

4,8 and 10

3287.727u 973.504s 21:18.88 333.1%      -4100+2075k 28490+5472io 10433pf+0w
3511.547u 1473.695s 15:30.77 535.6%     -2668+2067k 1604+5381io 8741pf+0w
3576.281u 1546.722s 15:38.02 546.1%     -2431+2068k 1570+5448io 8711pf+0w

         ---Mike