From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 20 16:44:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCD016A4D2 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 16:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ojoink.com (center.ojoink.com [216.65.123.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA0D043D46 for ; Thu, 20 May 2004 16:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amd64list@jpgsworld.com) Received: (qmail 24359 invoked by uid 89); 20 May 2004 23:48:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MAINBX.jpgsworld.com) (amd64list@jpgsworld.com@24.10.96.33) by center.ojoink.com with SMTP; 20 May 2004 23:48:51 -0000 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20040520164054.04317628@mail.ojoink.com> X-Sender: amd64list@jpgsworld.com@mail.ojoink.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 16:44:24 -0700 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org From: JG In-Reply-To: <16557.14509.453199.165108@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20040518103357.04c6cbb8@mail.ojoink.com> <5.2.0.9.2.20040518103357.04c6cbb8@mail.ojoink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: Why is MySQL nearly twice as fast on Linux/AMD64 Vs. FreeBSD/AMD64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:44:54 -0000 > >Can you describe in more detail the network configuration? Is it a >gigabit link? > >If so, have you compared just the network performance between FreeBSD >and Linux on this box, using the host you're running myBench on? Try >the netperf port.. > >A recent posting in -net suggests there may be some network >performance problems on amd64 (or it could have just been the tester's >machine). >(http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2004-May/004034.html) > >Drew Drew, It's only a 100mbit connection. I can try netperf a little later... but I had to wipe the mandrake install in order to do the the i386 FreeBSD install, so I'm temporarily unable to test Linux anymore. Anyway I think it's pointing to probably a threading and/or SMP issue, but I'll definitely test network performance between the two as well. - Jeremy