Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:32:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Short <neshort@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Improving SMP performance? Message-ID: <535299.10507.qm@web56507.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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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<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x98e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT>
AMD Features=0x28000000<RDTSCP,LM>
AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
TSC: P-state invariant
real memory = 4294967296 (4096 MB)
avail memory = 3066707968 (2924 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <HPQOEM SLIC-MPC>
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
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