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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 2002 23:27:14 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au>
To:        Nathan Kunkee <nkunkee@umr.edu>
Cc:        <smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: freebsd-hackers SMP performance question
Message-ID:  <Pine.OS2.4.32.0203022324120.128-100000@tenring.andymac.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020301162258.GA24102@umr.edu>

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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Nathan Kunkee wrote:

> I'm using a dual P120, 64M ram, built my own SMP kernel, and have noticed the
> same thing: performance/through put slows to nothing. my best example of this
> is when in X I move the mouse. no mouse motion, ~6% cpu usage. move the mouse,
> ~40-55% usage. Are all interrupts being mapped to a single cpu??

A dual P120 would definitely be subject to the fix made post 4.5.

Search the archives for a thread with the subject "P5 vs. SMP, part 2";
one followup contains a patch for a Pentium specific issue.

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