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Date:      Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:32:40 -0700
From:      ray@redshift.com
To:        sean@mcneil.com,Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Benchmarks: AMD64 vs i386 on Dual 246 Opteron
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.20050729013240.00a8afb8@pop.redshift.com>
In-Reply-To: <1122594648.45827.11.camel@server.mcneil.com>
References:  <20050728193519.A66123@cons.org> <3.0.1.32.20050728013152.00a4d188@pop.redshift.com> <20050728193519.A66123@cons.org>

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At 04:50 PM 7/28/2005 -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 19:35 -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:
| > I highly suspect that the 64 bit version of FreeBSD in this
| > comparision was somehow doomed before it started.  Opportunities are
| > leaving in kernel safety code in one of the kernels, a driver that
| > just doesn't work right on AMD64.  Or the same for any of the
| > software, maybe php is hosed in its 64 bit build.
| 
| If network throughput can effect the testing, I would suspect network
| drivers.  I've found the re0 driver performs horrible on amd64.
| Especially with gigE.
| 
| Cheers,
| Sean

Hi Sean,

  Testing was done via localhost.  That should let out the broadcam gigabit card.

Ray




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