From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 26 13:54:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from duck.doc.ic.ac.uk (duck.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.1.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3F6B37B406 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [146.169.27.3] (helo=jon) by duck.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 3.16 #7) id 15xE00-0001xL-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:54:40 +0100 Message-ID: <009101c15e60$f2e3a0c0$1f201f81@jon> From: "Jonathan Love" To: References: <008401c15e60$acddc150$1f201f81@jon> Subject: Re: SMP Problem Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:57:52 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, ubench not nbench but anyway :O) Jonathan Love ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Love" To: Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:55 PM Subject: SMP Problem > System: Dual P3 1Ghz on an Asus CUV4X-D > I'm using the 4.4 Stable source. > > When I use the generic kernel, so not enabling SMP, the processor performs > as expected for a single CPU, as shown by benchmarks such as the dnetc rc5. > > When I enable SMP, the processor(s?) go to pot and benchmark roughly at the > speed of a K6-200 (according to nbench). That's just through uncommenting > the 2 SMP lines but otherwise not touching anything else. > > Any ideas why? Do I need to make any sysctl tweaks? > > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and this is my first time in using SMP. > > Any suggestions gratefully received. > > Jonathan Love > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message