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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:47:41 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Tamiji Homma <thomma@BayNetworks.COM>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD-specific kernel code (was: How long a wait?)
Message-ID:  <19980812084741.G22754@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980811081637E.thomma@baynetworks.com>; from Tamiji Homma on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 08:16:37AM -0700
References:  <19980811130910.Q20188@freebie.lemis.com> <19980811081637E.thomma@baynetworks.com>

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On Tuesday, 11 August 1998 at  8:16:37 -0700, Tamiji Homma wrote:
> Greg,
>
> I tried K6 write-allocation patch last night.  Here is the result
> of make buidlworld (about 10 days old)
>
> PA-2007, K6-300(75MHz x 4.5), IBM UW 4(9ES)/NCR875.
>
> 2856.7 999.0 1:04:53.13 98.8% 826+918k 36516+37325io 3263pf (without patch)
> 2827.3 970.7 1:05:01.36 97.3% 832+923k 41049+40435io 3217pf (with patch)

Interesting.  You get less CPU time in both user and system, yet
slightly longer compile times.  Strange.

I still don't think that make world is the best test of this
facility.  It would be nice to see something more like the "web
server" scenario.

Greg
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