From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun May 25 15:26:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12239 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 15:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca8-61.ix.netcom.com [207.93.141.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA12228; Sun, 25 May 1997 15:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.5/8.6.9) id PAA01640; Sun, 25 May 1997 15:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 15:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705252226.PAA01640@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr CC: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, kato@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19970525131757.62904@keltia.freenix.fr> (message from Ollivier Robert on Sun, 25 May 1997 13:17:57 +0200) Subject: Re: Intel Pentium II released From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * 243 [12:56] roberto:~/.ncmdir> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64k count=16000 : * 1048576000 bytes transferred in 16.094320 secs (65151930 bytes/sec) * 244 [13:10] roberto:~/.ncmdir> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000 : * 1048576000 bytes transferred in 19.304305 secs (54318247 bytes/sec) Ouch. That's horrible! Even a p P133 with 2.1.5 (i.e., without the fast copyin/out) can get 80MB/s on both.... By the way, does anyone have a K6 with an Apollo chipset? * K6-166 @ 2.5x 75 MHz on ASUS P55T2P4. I'm surprised as I got about 144 Mb/s * with my previous setup (P133 @ 2x 83 MHz). That's impressive. * CPU: AMD K6 (187.94-MHz 586-class CPU) * Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x561 Stepping=1 * Features=0x8001bf Could it that the motherboard does not support all of K6's new features? (I heard you need a new BIOS for that if you have an older version of some motherboards.) Or maybe Mr. Kato will add them to his CPU-specific optimization code too. :) Satoshi