From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 00:33:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B0991065672 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:33:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from neshort@yahoo.com) Received: from n16.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com (n16.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 36A498FC16 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [209.191.108.96] by n16.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Apr 2010 00:32:58 -0000 Received: from [216.252.111.167] by t3.bullet.mud.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Apr 2010 00:32:58 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp102.mail.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Apr 2010 00:32:58 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 637425.32385.bm@omp102.mail.re3.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 11093 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Apr 2010 00:32:58 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1272414778; bh=ujbs4aVLynymLFFsJauG3/2cvyLcbMJBcbMeGlGGPLE=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TCbtmP3jzn7/7YoVNxoRnLj/skcVa0jejOUefU/hWIH0LsXd9RpblsgBXLqmIdzEkIg0vuVZrN7ZP/W2jHBYussjvKhy+PYdJoXd5ygyE+8yr0K3lK+m0FdhBGbiynXNZUvy6WMJw+CpysF8SLz/9WOCRHWQd3uuOpqeS2eJ69k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=yjhYrb3irgcAv5qT2rY8/NishhugnaM7HocKnFI2vzy7jixOQwAo+56ImKyxeMrioy59pTZV8LlMAn0AmNg9y4eTFoGDqaTtwgaCPsa1n8RJOqTEbpTX/s6yX2fw1WOhgYlx/hkbMmu14xlawrntppc5PggpOX/6RbxLAQ6/4MQ=; Message-ID: <535299.10507.qm@web56507.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 9UPPgQ0VM1l3m4rT2SgmUeAaVyaFZQ29hdgGVrqoGyrWVDK kiVSq6hvV1iG3uYRZxqsnMkap7TweBR3AmGPY3YCzNnzSEuPst4xDk0iBgzy jjBnNxWPETYGwbiWIvR2KL5BXLnJr8EXiAarMWrQxC5qTGVtcWnQhL_aL1Gt r4CZptqQ081vV8obtrhqiKToA0JvllcFrh2rTL9kLYK8xaR2B5DGGJwcs8.x hd_I3HagZFeX64tvmHdqD1_MXZmp6lAmFxtUwt5sa4wsijmkjTBuzo8gYmFR G5Lyoz4K02lLCkQAWJxZjZG9grNicJw_SEXbtiDip1zjUuHuhT7WeQw-- Received: from [173.84.5.26] by web56507.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:32:58 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailClassic/10.1.9 YahooMailWebService/0.8.103.269680 Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:32:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Short To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Improving SMP performance? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:33:00 -0000 I'm somewhat disappointed in the performance in my laptop which is supposed to have a really fast processor. Is there some way to get more out of the processor? [neshort/] uname -a FreeBSD carmen 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #1: Thu Apr 15 19:54:24 MST 2010 neshort@carmen:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CARMEN i386 [neshort/] dmesg ... Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz (2127.92-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20652 Family = 6 Model = 25 Stepping = 2 Features=0xbfebfbff Features2=0x98e3bd AMD Features=0x28000000 AMD Features2=0x1 TSC: P-state invariant real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB) avail memory = 3066707968 (2924 MB) ACPI APIC Table: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 2 core(s) x 2 SMT threads cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 4 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 5 ====== "What did you do?" the man holding the flashlight asked. "I put down a spider," he said, wondering why the man didn't see; in the beam of yellow light the spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could get away."