From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 10 22:52:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCABF16A4CE for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:52:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF17843D60 for ; Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:52:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.0.49] (24.247.120.6.kzo.mi.chartermi.net [24.247.120.6]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id iBAMqCsR061094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:52:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) X-Authentication-Warning: adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net: Host 24.247.120.6.kzo.mi.chartermi.net [24.247.120.6] claimed to be [192.168.0.49] Message-Id: <143963B7-4AFE-11D9-B1B3-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> X-Habeas-Swe-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-Swe-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:51:50 -0500 X-Habeas-Swe-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this From: Lucas Holt X-Habeas-Swe-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-Swe-2: brightly anticipated In-Reply-To: References: <36661.194.210.13.66.1102680032.squirrel@194.210.13.66> <41B9F042.4040700@raad.tartu.ee> To: "Colin J. Raven" X-Habeas-Swe-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) X-Habeas-Swe-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Habeas-Swe-1: winter into spring Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Habeas-Swe-9: mark in spam to . X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/614/Wed Dec 1 10:44:43 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j10:44:43 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: [Fwd: HTT/SMP servers instability on 5.3-STABLE] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 22:52:15 -0000 >> > > Well thanks for sharing those observations. Until I read what you said > I *assumed* that there was a performance difference with HTT enabled. > The specs seem to show that there *is* a theoretical difference, yet > clearly according to your observations there just isn't any difference > of earth shaking proportions. > > Much appreciated! > > Regards, > -Colin > -- > Colin J. Raven > NetBSD on a Cobalt Qube2 - http://www.NetBSD.org - Fri Dec 10 19:56:00 > UTC 2004 > 7:56PM up 4:09, 5 users, load averages: 1.11, 1.16, 1.16 > _______________________________________________ > I've got a dual xeon 2.0 ghz workstation. I've tried running with and without HTT enabled on it. My observations were that it seemed to help slightly with certain tasks but in general degraded system performance. For example, if i build a world to upgrade the OS it takes at least 30 seconds longer with HTT enabled. I tried it multiple times to verify it. I even tried it with different values for the j flag. (3 4 5 and 6) Similarly, if i run it in windows with HTT enabled I noticed that windows was peppy but it was a disaster during gaming. Of course that makes sense as most of my games are not designed for multiple cpus. (enemy territory, quake 3, Doom 3, etc) I also realize i could play some of them in fbsd, except my radeon 9600 xt isn't supported for 3d acceleration! Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)