From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 28 12:36:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092C237B405; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:36:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0091.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.91] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gXHu-0001zw-00; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:36:26 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7E94BD.B22144BB@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:36:13 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Frost, Stephen C" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-smp@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD, SMP and Performance Speeds? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Frost, Stephen C" wrote: > This includes multiple configurations, incl: dual PIII 700s, dual PIII 800s, > quad PIII Zeon 550s, etc... No old procs, per se. I'm running the released > version of 4.5. Was a proc-specific fix implemented *after* its release? There is code in 4.5 that is incredibly slow on older hardware. THis has been fixed in -current and -stable. Please see the list archives for the patch, if you can not update to -stable. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message