From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 13 12:57:18 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 014B037B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:57:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A956F43FBD for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 12:57:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1DKvC6H032957; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:57:13 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1DKvCcb032951; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:57:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:57:12 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jon Myers Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: general slowness and Q's.. Message-ID: <20030213215712.A25602@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20030213145019.01aa3670@mail2.alfredstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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