From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 08:43:12 2010 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 9AF851065672 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:43:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB378FC14 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:43:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.92]) by qmta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9khb1f0041zF43QAEkjCCc; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:43:12 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta24.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 9kjB1f0023LrwQ28kkjBRX; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:43:11 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E5D5A9B418; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:43:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 01:43:10 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Adam Vande More Message-ID: <20100922084310.GA6760@icarus.home.lan> References: <10b0bdef-2bb1-44c8-9ffb-7d3167147a4f@q2g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> <20100922081230.GA20489@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Bryce , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance 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: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:43:12 -0000 On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:30:33AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > I think something is badly wrong here. That's less than 1/2 the speed > > of my Athlon 4850e (2.5GHz) and only 60% more than my Atom N270. None > > of the other figures you posted look anomolous. Are you sure the CPU > > is actually running at full speed and you haven't done something like > > disable the caches in BIOS? > > > > FWIW: > > FreeBSD galacticdominator.com 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Sun > Jun 20 21:05:37 CDT 2010 > adam@galacticdominator.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > amd64 > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 870 @ 2.93GHz (2940.64-MHz K8-class > CPU) > > MD5 time trial. Digesting 100000 10000-byte blocks ... done > Digest = 766a2bb5d24bddae466c572bcabca3ee > Time = 2.012719 seconds > Speed = 496840352.000000 bytes/second > > vmstat > -i > > interrupt total > rate > > irq16: vgapci0+ 10720642 54 > irq18: fwohci0 2 0 > irq23: ehci1 623712 3 > cpu0: timer 393496151 1996 > irq256: hdac0 8063581 40 > irq257: re0 4136265 20 > irq259: ahci1 1925783 9 > cpu1: timer 393494902 1996 > cpu6: timer 393494606 1996 > cpu5: timer 393494653 1996 > cpu7: timer 393494701 1996 > cpu4: timer 393494785 1996 > cpu3: timer 393494732 1996 > cpu2: timer 393494404 1996 > Total 3173428919 16102 > > His interrupts seem high compared to this setup, but I don't what expected > values should be. How are his interrupt rates "higher" than yours? If you're focused on the cpuX entries, don't be. To the OP: 1) I don't see how/why USB Legacy support would have anything to do with your problem (meaning: you stated that things "improved a little" if you disabled USB Legacy support in the BIOS, which makes no sense given what that option does). 2) There's been a discussion on -stable about FreeBSD incorrectly determining different kinds of CPU characteristics on newer processors like the i7, with HTT in use. I can dig up the thread if you'd like. It does include a patch. 3) Reset the BIOS settings to Factory Defaults ("Load Setup Defaults" or the like), and then write down whatever you change, then post the changes here. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |