From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Dec 9 8:12:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6DD37B407 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A4343EF2 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:12:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: from k6.locore.ca (jake@localhost.locore.ca [127.0.0.1]) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB9GTGxQ078886; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:29:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake@k6.locore.ca) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gB9GTGx2078885; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:29:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 11:29:16 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Michael Schuster Cc: Mikhail Teterin , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: why would Sparc be soo sloow?] Message-ID: <20021209112915.J65438@locore.ca> References: <3DF4ADA4.77830BDB@sun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3DF4ADA4.77830BDB@sun.com>; from michael.schuster@sun.com on Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:50:12PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 03:50:12PM +0100, Michael Schuster said words to the effect of; > I wrote: > > > > Mikhail Teterin wrote: > > > > > > > > = - other HW config aspects, like storage in use, etc for both (!) > > > = machines, as well as characteristic of the application, such > > > = as > > > = - memory footprint > > > = - I/O behaviour, etc. > > > > > > Very little -- all the program is doing is computations -- the CPU is > > > the bottleneck on both machines. > > > > if this really is the case, patch 111722-01 may help you. > > a few tests showed that that's likely. > [...] This all great, but discussing problems with solaris is terribly off topic here. On topic would be perhaps helping us to get the things we need to support UltraSPARC III on FreeBSD and comparing that to the dell. Please stay on topic. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message