From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 21:57:45 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5E716A434 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B05243D68 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:56:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 54775 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2006 21:56:12 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=aMCHf31h6J/YRb6GEqI6QApkPu1dYoTn1r3bsQM9xFHOAOATJFx0Mu7ZJ/128+ujLbNhPEY/9lqLf4tR8V2l9PiPLl+JUVn3sBcvvt+VexEPwanaDzp4aGtL2/RAZScTgqScYH7iTF3Hec7TwEDRJxJkt2NxDXWkKIfiJ6Z8RUY= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?70.31.50.218?) (mikej@rogers.com@70.31.50.218 with plain) by smtp100.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2006 21:56:11 -0000 Message-ID: <44188D9D.8010801@rogers.com> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:56:45 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <200603140740.38388.joao@matik.com.br> <200603151728.35620.joao@matik.com.br> <20060315203922.GA87806@xor.obsecurity.org> <200603151754.27250.joao@matik.com.br> <20060315211307.GA88339@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060315211307.GA88339@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 slower than i386 on identical AMD 64 system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:57:45 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > No, you haven't ruled it out, only that none of the versions you tried > fix your issue. Note what I said earlier: other people use dual core > CPUs on FreeBSD/amd64 without stability problems, so it is not a > general problem with FreeBSD. > Indeed, they are. The system below is working just fine for me, and the performance is quite good too (for a pentium4). It's a Supermicro PDSMi board: 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Mar 7 12:24:51 EST 2006 amd64 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf62 Stepping = 2 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0xe43d,> AMD Features=0x20100800 Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 535691264 (510 MB) avail memory = 510017536 (486 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs