From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 13:50:29 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 AF41610656A3 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:50:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from sola.nimnet.asn.au (paqi.nimnet.asn.au [115.70.110.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061CB8FC1A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:50:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sola.nimnet.asn.au (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id o8MDoGo4026381; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:50:17 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:50:16 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20100922081230.GA20489@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Message-ID: <20100922230552.D11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <10b0bdef-2bb1-44c8-9ffb-7d3167147a4f@q2g2000vbk.googlegroups.com> <20100922081230.GA20489@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1641429527-1285160925=:11124" Content-ID: <20100922231016.A11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Cc: Adam Vande More , Bryce , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 13:50:29 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1641429527-1285160925=:11124 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-ID: <20100922231016.R11124@sola.nimnet.asn.au> On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:12:30 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2010-Sep-21 20:02:09 -0700, Bryce wrote: > >On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: > >> On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards wrote: > >> > >> >I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and > >> >it is nowhere near the performance it should be.  A buildworld just > >> >took 22.5 hours! > > >> - md5 -t   [this will help determine if the problem is lack of CPU] > > > >MD5 time trial. Digesting 100000 10000-byte blocks ... done > >Digest = 766a2bb5d24bddae466c572bcabca3ee > >Time = 5.421381 seconds > >Speed = 184454848.000000 bytes/second > > 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? It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry. Adam's data from his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the md5 -t, maybe a lower EST rate? - but that could no way account for buildworld taking 22.5 hours. Recent buildworld (albeit i386) on my Thinkpad T23 ran just shy of 3.5 hours, without -j on an 1133MHz P3-M, 768MB of 133MHz RAM, 5400rpm UFS disk - with X/KDE running meanwhile (~5-7% CPU penalty). cheers, Ian --0-1641429527-1285160925=:11124--