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Subject: Re: Benchmarks: AMD64 vs i386 on Dual 246 Opteron
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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