On 23-Mar-2002 Jeff Roberson wrote:
>>
>> I saw some similar weirdness in my test machines last night where a dual
>> processor DS20 (Alpha 21264 500x2) beat out a PII Xeon 450x4. Normally
> the
>> quad xeon beats the DS20. The quad xeon was using -j16 but was about 74%
>> idle.
>> The DS20 had
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:34:00PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:43:03 -0500 (EST)
> >From: Jeff Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >Are you both running with WITNESS and INVARIANTS? UMA is slightly slower
> >with these options on than the original malloc & vm_zone cod
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:43:03 -0500 (EST)
>From: Jeff Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Are you both running with WITNESS and INVARIANTS? UMA is slightly slower
>with these options on than the original malloc & vm_zone code. I'm not
>sure why it would be even worse for SMP machines though. So m
>
> I saw some similar weirdness in my test machines last night where a dual
> processor DS20 (Alpha 21264 500x2) beat out a PII Xeon 450x4. Normally
the
> quad xeon beats the DS20. The quad xeon was using -j16 but was about 74%
> idle.
> The DS20 had used -j8. I didn't get a chacne to run top
Robert Watson wrote:
> > On a 0 - 10 "weirdness" scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's
> > hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a
> > small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question
> > were not expected. (And yes, I understand that a
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On a 0 - 10 "weirdness" scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's
> hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a
> small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question
> were not expected. (And yes, I un
On 22-Mar-2002 David Wolfskill wrote:
> On a 0 - 10 "weirdness" scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's
> hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a
> small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question
> were not expected. (And yes, I understa
On a 0 - 10 "weirdness" scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's
hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a
small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question
were not expected. (And yes, I understand that a degree of uncertainty
with respect to
