From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 10 21:54:47 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DD716A419 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:54:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9615213C465 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:54:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [212.12.50.230]) by koef.zs64.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lBALshuC095121; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:54:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from cracauer@koef.zs64.net) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by koef.zs64.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lBALshMT095120; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:54:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cracauer) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:54:43 -0500 From: Martin Cracauer To: Reko Turja Message-ID: <20071210215443.GC90158@cons.org> References: <20071201213732.GA16638@cannabis.dataforce.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Alexey Vlasov Subject: Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:54:47 -0000 Reko Turja wrote on Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 12:23:15AM +0200: > On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:37:32 +0200, Alexey Vlasov wrote: > > >kernel: > >machine i386 > >cpu I686_CPU > >ident F1RNT1 > > > >options PAE > > One very probable culprit for slowness Sorry for the late reply, but here are some results for PAE. The slowdown isn't dramatic. Of course this is just 3 GB normal RAM + 1 GB PAE, so 3 Gb normal + 9 GB PAE would look worse. http://www.cons.org/cracauer/crabench/pae.user.html Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/