From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 29 15:57:36 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2362716A41A for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:57:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9816C13C46A for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:57:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kometen@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so474243anc for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:57:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=vus9ifUi+NthaM3S7hy7Hq3syH1FIyeE+P/GeqU2X8M=; b=j+vYzxQRAZLlFj6ShBcqF7k0L10455ibUSLPJ6tor3/Qr30swCOS/ydkaZ5klC+FpI/aQqcqJDQlPBXHfoBK0whUVP6OnXgRCKz8Uf40ruyQgqjIcnNSY0w5qQYIGZ9Y8tjRmMhvT35W43bYIISbi0HdTzIygZepeAeZ5pPB84o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=H68ewwTggdWZTqS+w2n2FlmsbNAupoaV3mRQgj4FkkS2AmJEsqdzCUvUaC1Lalh1WZJ37h8VAwjwUg69+Kg0xZ7C0Clt6VZvimU/h/S22eMeTXTiMgNISguL8J0wyGYtBROkMRyrHVKTziaoD5Pr6hNDH+DqGK7B6po5vDgHul0= Received: by 10.101.68.19 with SMTP id v19mr4755193ank.1196351854515; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:57:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.228.15 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:57:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:57:34 +0100 From: "Claus Guttesen" To: "Pete French" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also seeing 2 x quad-core system slower that 2 x dual core X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:57:36 -0000 > I think I also just came up against the same effect that the original poster > saw. I have two sets of machines here - one is a pair of dual core Xeons, > the other a pair of quad core Xeons. They are HP servers, more or less > identical apart from the processors I belive. > > Both have 7.0-BETA3 installed, and the same config on them with the > same files. I am trying to delete a gigabyte of files using 'rm -rf' > > On the dual core processors this takes about 20 seconds. On the quad > cores it takes about 3 minutes! This is true for both the 32 and 64 bit > versions of FreeBSD :-( ULE- or 4BSD-scheduler? Bit OT: Are the servers DL360 or DL380 (G5)? I will upgrade a DL380 server from 6.2 to 7.0 (beta3) in order to gain some performance tomorrow. -- regards Claus When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shakespeare