From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 28 13: 1: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF88E37B437; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020228210042.GCGN1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:00:42 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA07396; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:47:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:46:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Frost, Stephen C" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-smp@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD, SMP and Performance Speeds? In-Reply-To: <3C7E94BD.B22144BB@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 This is not so relevant because he is NOT RUNNING old hardware! (well not THAT old). On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > "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-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message