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Date:      Mon, 3 May 2010 15:48:14 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To:        Bryce Edwards <bryce@bryce.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 8-STABLE performance issues on Supermicro Core i7
Message-ID:  <20100503224814.GA9477@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <p2j34da63c51005021940ja279a71cx8d59a2275354699f@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <m2j34da63c51005010810r21e40b23m76d9beccd5daaf8c@mail.gmail.com> <p2j34da63c51005021940ja279a71cx8d59a2275354699f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 09:40:13PM -0500, Bryce Edwards wrote:
> I've got a new Supermicro X58 system with an Intel Core i7 930 with 6
> GB ram that is not performing nearly as fast as it should in many ways
> (compiling, network transfers).

By the way, an interesting thread you might read -- yes it's long.
Subject "Only 70% of theoretical peak performance on FreeBSD 8/amd64,
Corei7 920":

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/thread.html#56253

The performance stats you're providing are much lower than 70% peak, so
I'm not sure there's a correlation, but that's a thread which did bring
up odd performance-affecting changes in the i5/i7 architecture:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056332.html

It's also hard to determine from the thread given its length, but I
believe pinning a process to an individual CPU increased (~20%+) the OPs
performance.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056316.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056339.html

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                   jdc@parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
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