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Date:      Tue, 29 Nov 2005 05:37:19 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Eirik ?verby <ltning@anduin.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Reduced java/tomcat performance 6-beta3 -> 6-stable ?
Message-ID:  <20051129103719.GB43032@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <C8244498-F58F-4CCD-9BA5-7B9E19EAD517@anduin.net>
References:  <84dead720511280545v2bc0bc35jd107da06b9a788cb@mail.gmail.com> <20187843-76FC-4EAB-AFF8-7493FB0C0077@anduin.net> <84dead720511280654j138635abgcb9cc0978e6c26b7@mail.gmail.com> <02757598-222D-408E-8B33-C2EE1E6E426E@anduin.net> <20051128211440.GB28963@xor.obsecurity.org> <3A601A32-94D1-49F6-AB06-ED54D50D4B6A@anduin.net> <20051128235911.GA31669@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051129094531.Y23958@anduin.net> <20051129091533.GA41885@xor.obsecurity.org> <C8244498-F58F-4CCD-9BA5-7B9E19EAD517@anduin.net>

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 10:25:07AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote:
>=20
> On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:15 , Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> >On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:53:00PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote:
> >>>>Firmware versions are equal. BIOS settings are equal.
> >>>>However, a diff of the dmesgs show (apart from MAC address =20
> >>>>differences):
> >>>>
> >>>>30c30
> >>>>< Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> >>>>---
> >>>>>Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> >>>>
> >>>>What on earth is that all about? The "slow" box has the ACPI-fast
> >>>>timecounter...
> >>>
> >>>Could be ACPI bugs on your system:
> >>
> >>Yes, but the other system is 100% equal - hardware, bios config, =20
> >>bios and
> >>bootblock revision, controller bioses, etc. etc.
> >>It all matches.
> >
> >Clearly they're not 100% equal, but (100-epsilon)%.  Your job is to
> >identify the origin of the epsilon :-)
>=20
> Yea yea ;) Working on it..
> Is there a way to force ACPI-safe on the slower system?

I think someone already mentioned this..see the
kern.timecounter.hardware and other kern.timecounter sysctls.

Kris

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