Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:47:26 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu, hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory speed (was Re: _big_ IDE disks?) Message-ID: <199702241647.JAA15355@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199702241618.DAA07615@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >The triton-1 machine running 2.1.7 consistently showed ~74MB/sec, while > >the natoma p6-200 systems running ecc showed ~80MB/sec (both > >just-before-lite2-current and 2.2 from about 1/26.) > > > >the triton-2 machines (1 w/96MB edo, the other with 64MB fpm) both showed > >rates ~117MB when the systems were otherwise unloaded. These machines > >both were running 2.2 from yesterday morning. > > Not good :-). I have Triton-1 (ASUS P55TP4XE) with non-EDO RAM and the > benchmark runs at about 119.2MB/sec (1MB = 1048576). Hmm, that's my motherboard, so I should be seeing similar results. Which BIOS are you using, and which revision of the motherboard? > >These results are with the standard bios parameters for 60ns memory. > >There are a few memory knobs besides normal timing in the p6np5 bios but I > >haven't experimented. I suppose Rod Grimes would know what the optimal > >settings are :) > > I use the standard knobs with everything turned up high. An x-2-2-2 > write burst cycle is most important for this benchmark. I'm not sure what mine is set to. I'll have to go check, and get back to you on it. Natehome | help
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