Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 14:27:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Moestl <tmm@freebsd.org> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sparc slowdown - problem identified... Message-ID: <20030816212727.GA6164@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030815143404.GB701@crow.dom2ip.de> References: <20030815121010.I97608@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030815135034.GA701@crow.dom2ip.de> <20030815080055.O22214@seekingfire.com> <20030815143404.GB701@crow.dom2ip.de>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Thomas Moestl wrote:
> > The notes for OFW_NEWPCI say:
> >
> > # New OpenFirmware PCI framework. This fixes a number of interrupt-
> > # routing problems and changes the device enumeration to be hopefully
> > # closer to Solaris. Be aware that, because of the latter, enabling or
> > # disabling this option may require reconfiguration, and can even
> > # cause the machine to not boot without manual intervention before the
> > # fstab is adjusted.
> >
> > What sort of changes are likely to occur that would affect fstab? The
> > box is remote, so I can fix most things via a serial console as long as
> > it'll boot :-)
Please, please, please, please consider making OFW_NEWPCI the default.
After turning it on, 'make buildworld':
3h37m12.24s real 2h56m32.37s user 34m20.62s sys
still a little slower than before, but not the 4x degradation I
experienced.
I'm curious why you didn't see this on your Blade 100 didn't experience
this as mine did. Could it be that you have no devices in your PCI slots
and I have two SCSI cards?
--
-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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