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Date:      Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:43:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
To:        jhb@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March
Message-ID:  <20020322204145.J88743-100000@mail.chesapeake.net>

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> 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 to see how it was
> doing during hte world since I didn't notice the weirdness until last
night
> after the DS20 had finsihed but the quad xeon was still chugging along.
>

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 maybe it
isn't UMA at all but it's worth looking into.

Thanks,
Jeff


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