Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-24 Thread John Theus
Alexander Motin wrote: Just to compare, my Core i7-870 with boxed cooler reports: 31C being idle with tuned power management, 53C being idle without any power management, 85C during `make -j16`. That system did `make -j16 universe` in about 3 hours AFAIR. Another data point and a comment about

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
I know it might seem a bit like overkill but have you put windows or Linux on this box and tried some basic tests? Might be a way to eliminate so sort of hardware failure and not something that's FreeBSD specific? Regards Steve This e.mail

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-24 Thread Bryce
Yay! I have solved the problem I got a new BIOS from SuperMicro support, and it has resolved the performance issues I was seeing. I also no longer have to disable Legacy USB. Here's the new improved times for buildworld buildkernel (with - j12). 19 minutes for world and kernel (with all

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-24 Thread Steven Hartland
Original Message - From: Bryce br...@bryce.net Yay! I have solved the problem I got a new BIOS from SuperMicro support, and it has resolved the performance issues I was seeing. I also no longer have to disable Legacy USB. Here's the new improved times for buildworld

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Alexander Motin
Bryce wrote: I don't think it is temperature, I have never seen temps above the low 60's C and the speed never goes down from 2.8 Ghz. This is what I see when running your dd for a while: br...@tahiti[~]sysctl -a | grep temperature dev.cpu.0.temperature: 55.0C dev.cpu.1.temperature: 55.0C

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/09/2010 11:26 Alexander Motin said the following: PS: AFAIK dev.cpu.0.freq won't report you if frequency was lowered due to overheating. I think that you are correct about this. And last I checked we simply ignored thermal throttling interrupt. -- Andriy Gapon

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/09/2010, at 21:26, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 23/09/2010 11:26 Alexander Motin said the following: PS: AFAIK dev.cpu.0.freq won't report you if frequency was lowered due to overheating. I think that you are correct about this. And last I checked we simply ignored thermal throttling

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Bryce
On Sep 22, 9:35 am, nickolas...@gmail.com wrote: md5 -t is quite a small benchmark, even with his misfunctioning CPU it took 6 seconds to complete. If his problem is a misapplied heatsink/fan, then his CPU could be throttling when it gets hot, the hotter it gets the more it throttles,

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 23/09/2010 15:37 Daniel O'Connor said the following: On 23/09/2010, at 21:26, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 23/09/2010 11:26 Alexander Motin said the following: PS: AFAIK dev.cpu.0.freq won't report you if frequency was lowered due to overheating. I think that you are correct about this. And

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alexander Motin wrote: Bryce wrote: I don't think it is temperature, I have never seen temps above the low 60's C and the speed never goes down from 2.8 Ghz. This is what I see when running your dd for a while: br...@tahiti[~]sysctl -a | grep temperature

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Alexander Motin
Ian Smith wrote: So not looking much like overheating. But don't these messages requoted below seem at all significant? At least, I've never seen them before: est0: Enhanced SpeedStep Frequency Control on cpu0 est0: Invalid id16 (set, cur) = (20, 21) est0: Can't check freq 2667, it may

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Alexander Motin wrote: Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:42:29 +0300 From: Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org To: Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au Cc: Bryce br...@bryce.net, FreeBSD Stable freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Bryce
Just wanted to follow up and show what things looks like in the 'building everything' part of build world. It has been running almost 23 hours... br...@tahiti[~]vmstat 1 procs memory pagedisks faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi pofr sr da0

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-21 20:02:09 -0700, Bryce br...@bryce.net wrote: On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards br...@bryce.net wrote: I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and it is nowhere near the performance

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: I think something is badly wrong here. That's less than 1/2 the speed of my Athlon 4850e (2.5GHz) and only 60% more than my Atom N270. None of the other figures you posted look anomolous. Are you sure the CPU is

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:30:33AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: I think something is badly wrong here. That's less than 1/2 the speed of my Athlon 4850e (2.5GHz) and only 60% more than my Atom N270. None of the

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-22 01:43:10 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com wrote: To the OP: ... 4) Check the CPU core temperature (via coretemp(4) or similar) and make sure the heatsink is correctly attached. -- Peter Jeremy pgp049hzGw1N5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:12:30 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Sep-21 20:02:09 -0700, Bryce br...@bryce.net wrote: On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards br...@bryce.net wrote: I have a Supermicro with the C7X58

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:43:10 am Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:30:33AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: I think something is badly wrong here. That's less than 1/2 the speed of my

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry.  Adam's data from his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the md5 -t, maybe a lower EST rate? - but that could no way account for buildworld taking 22.5 hours. Recent

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread nickolasbug
md5 -t is quite a small benchmark, even with his misfunctioning CPU it took 6 seconds to complete. If his problem is a misapplied heatsink/fan, then his CPU could be throttling when it gets hot, the hotter it gets the more it throttles, which could explain his massive buildworld walltime.

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry.  Adam's data from his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the md5 -t, maybe a lower EST rate? - but that could no way

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Bryce
On Sep 22, 11:43 am, smi...@nimnet.asn.au (Ian Smith) wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Tom Evans wrote:   On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote:   It seems far more than just CPU performance is awry.  Adam's data from   his i7 shows 2.7 times Bryce's speed for the

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Bryce
On Sep 22, 3:43 am, free...@jdc.parodius.com (Jeremy Chadwick) wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:30:33AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: I think something is badly wrong here.  That's less than 1/2 the speed of my

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 05:54:46PM -0700, Bryce wrote: On Sep 22, 3:43 am, free...@jdc.parodius.com (Jeremy Chadwick) wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:30:33AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote: I think something is

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-21 Thread Bryce
On Sep 20, 6:17 am, peterjer...@acm.org (Peter Jeremy) wrote: On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards br...@bryce.net wrote: I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and it is nowhere near the performance it should be.  A buildworld just took 22.5 hours! That

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-20 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Sep-18 08:32:32 -0500, Bryce Edwards br...@bryce.net wrote: I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and it is nowhere near the performance it should be. A buildworld just took 22.5 hours! That does sound a bit poor. I presume the system was basically unloaded

SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-18 Thread Bryce Edwards
I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and it is nowhere near the performance it should be. A buildworld just took 22.5 hours! br...@tahiti[~]uname -a FreeBSD tahiti.bryce.net 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 7 22:45:38 CDT 2010

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-18 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 08:32:32AM -0500, Bryce Edwards wrote: I have a Supermicro with the C7X58 motherboard and an i7 930 cpu, and it is nowhere near the performance it should be. A buildworld just took 22.5 hours! I use 5046A-XB with i7-930 as home workstation, running latest RELENG_8, and