From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 13 23:20:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D3F37B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F22943E75 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:20:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020914062007.UXXT23613.sccrmhc02.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org> for ; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 06:20:07 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA82172 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:19:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: FreeBSD current users Subject: A riddle in -current Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 2 identical machines. the same kernel binary /etc (basically) identical (/etc/passwd slightly different) the same system sources compiled and installed yet: one is 10% faster than the other CONSISTANTLY in buildworld after a reboot and 5 minutes of the EXACT same work (buildworld up to the following message:) -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> stage 2: cleaning up the object tree -------------------------------------------------------------- the slower machine shows in top: last pid: 3079; load averages: 0.01, 0.19, 0.14 up 0+00:13:02 06:13:55 24 processes: 1 running, 14 sleeping, 9 stopped CPU states: 0.4% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 18M Active, 106M Inact, 27M Wired, 124K Cache, 35M Buf, 94M Free Swap: 513M Total, 513M Free while the faster machine shows: last pid: 3079; load averages: 0.00, 0.15, 0.13 up 0+00:13:25 06:15:55 24 processes: 1 running, 14 sleeping, 9 stopped CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6% idle Mem: 11M Active, 36M Inact, 24M Wired, 144K Cache, 35M Buf, 174M Free Swap: 513M Total, 513M Free Notice in particular the differences in Free and Inactive memory... this is completely reproducible. anyone have any thoughts? I can't think of anything that would affect the vm to this extent.. they both start out with 222 MB in the 'free' field. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message