Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:57:12 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Jon Myers <myersjw@alfredstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: general slowness and Q's.. Message-ID: <20030213215712.A25602@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20030213145019.01aa3670@mail2.alfredstate.edu>; from myersjw@alfredstate.edu on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0500 References: <5.0.2.1.2.20030213145019.01aa3670@mail2.alfredstate.edu>
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On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:28:30PM -0500, Jon Myers wrote: > I recently acquired an AlphaServer 800 5/333 (EV56) w/320megs ram. The > system seems to run about the same speed as my PentiPro 200 as far as > buildworld and buildkernel go. Is this normal? Anything else needing to > be done to these alphas with SRM to get them to go a little faster? > buildworld took 4 hours, 22 minutes. > buildkernel (generic) takes 37 minutes. > (buildworld on my single ppro200 w/IDE drives takes 4 hours, 7 minutes) The gcc code generator is apparantly much slower on Alpha than on x86. Not that compiling on Tru64 is particularly fast using the Compaq/HP compiler. I suppose that the optimiser tries to do more smart things on the Alpha CPU. > Another odd thing is I've pulled all the drives, except for one 9 gig as > dka0. bootup sees 15 devices (da0 - da14) all pointing to this same drive, > same bus, same lun, but different targets. If I install more drives I cant > seem to find them in the dmesg anywhere.. so not sure how to label > them. (have a pile of these 9 gig drives, so normally they should appear > with the same model number and such, and no way to tell them apart other > than from the device numbers which seem to be a little off at the > moment). The SCSI interface is whatever came with the box (NOT using RAID > on this.. don't have the controller for it). Looks like a SCSI ID conflict or so?? > This box was just handed over to us at the telecomm office because the > relatively new guys at the computer center got rid of all their powerful > machines, and replaced with P2 and P3 windows boxes. (most of these alphas > were running VMS). Say thank you and keep a close eye on the dumpster. :) W/ -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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