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Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: 7.0 CPU and Memory Performance
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Tim Traver wrote:
> 
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Tim Traver wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anything that I can do on this latest 7.0 box that might be
>>> useful information???
>> Someone will need to repeat this under controlled conditions.  It's
>> quite a surprising result.
>>
>> Kris
> Kris,
> 
> If you can outline a procedure for me, I might be able to do these tests
> for you, as I still have the 5.4 disk available.
> 
> Couple of things though...I'm not sure what code base the 5.4 box had on
> it...I could maybe update the src and recompile the kernel.
> 
> I would probably have to have someone else take a look at exactly what
> ubench is doing, and if it is indeed a test that makes sense to
> use...anyone?
> 
> Once I am finished, I would assume you would need things like dmesg
> output, the compiling conf parameters, etc...tell me what would be good...
> 
> If this is not controlled enough, then you might have to have one of the
> performance team do it I guess...
> 

Robert outlined the steps that need to be done to begin with.

Kris