Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 19:35:09 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 x quad-core system is slower that 2 x dual core on FreeBSD Message-ID: <fhsl0v$n85$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <4741B3DE.2000009@chistydom.ru> References: <4741905E.8050300@chistydom.ru> <fhs3s5$knj$1@ger.gmane.org> <47419AB3.5030008@chistydom.ru> <fhs7db$2es$1@ger.gmane.org> <4741B3DE.2000009@chistydom.ru>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig08E7856D1BCDB2833F74CA53 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alexey Popov wrote: > Here is it: http://83.167.98.162/gprof/kdump.txt.gz I don't see anything unusual there. Some more ideas: How is your disk load (iostat, systat -vm, diskinfo -t) during the load? You don't use NFS for the web directories, do you? Can you run bonnie++ while the machine is idle (i.e. apache is stopped) just to verify it isn't a stupid problem with the disks or the driver? >> Also, did you try configuring and running pecl-APC for PHP?'s > I'm using eAccelerator. Again, the same soft works good on less-CPU > system and on Linux. So, you pick the CPU out of the motherboard and plug in another one? If not, you can't be sure that some other thing isn't wrong. I know you tried it on Linux, but it might use slightly different commands in the driver that don't trigger the error. I'm very surprised that both 6.x and 7.x behave almost the same on your load: since they are very different in how they support multiple CPU-s, I'd expect a big difference in this case (in favour of 7.x), not a small one. This might point that the problem is not in the OS itself, but maybe in the hardware or in some driver. Many people (including me) have run FreeBSD on machines like yours without such problems, so let's dig further. You don't have WITNESS, INVARIANTS, DIAGNOSTICS or something similar enabled? Can you try a generic SMP kernel (called "SMP" in 6.x; the "GENERIC" in 7.x has SMP by default) and see how it works? Can you disable SMP and try with only one CPU (on the 2xquad machine)? You can do it in loader.conf by setting kern.smp.disabled=3D1, or perhaps= in BIOS. If there's a problem in some hardware or a driver, you'd still get a big load on sys time. You might also want to halt certain logical CPUs in the OS itself (see smp(4) man page) and see if there's a certain relationship between how many CPUs are running and what the sys load is. --------------enig08E7856D1BCDB2833F74CA53 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHQdddldnAQVacBcgRAkvXAKCtE5R0FjpyYEcs8prZhjSZrwh0UACgr91n 9dRDH+/KSBklM7l4vfiwF7s= =o/Ix -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig08E7856D1BCDB2833F74CA53--
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