From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 16 16:35:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA26372 for current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:35:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA26365 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 16:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA24705; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:35:05 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711170035.TAA24705@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: make world time???/ In-Reply-To: from Steve Price at "Nov 16, 97 02:00:09 pm" To: sprice@hiwaay.net (Steve Price) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 19:35:05 -0500 (EST) Cc: smp@csn.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Price said: > > I just saw this and I wanted to say thanks to you, Peter, and the > rest of the SMP team. I installed my second P5-166 in my machine > at work and about 30 minutes later (after rebuilding the kernel) > I was up and running with both CPUs and no hiccups so far. > > [insert crowd_cheering_at_95dB.wav here] > > BTW, here are my results with 'make -j8 -k world' from that night: > > make world started on Fri Now 14 19:27:31 CST 1997 > ... > make world completed on Fri Nov 14 21:21:26 CST 1997 > > Just under 2H, I'd say that pretty much kicks b*tt. :) > > Steve > That is SUPER for dual P5!!! Not to speak religion here, but imagine that P5's normally share the 2nd level cache. There are probably people with dual P6 machines that don't do much better that that... Great! -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com