Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 16:50:48 -0700 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Benchmarks: AMD64 vs i386 on Dual 246 Opteron Message-ID: <1122594648.45827.11.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <20050728193519.A66123@cons.org> References: <3.0.1.32.20050728013152.00a4d188@pop.redshift.com> <20050728193519.A66123@cons.org>
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On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 19:35 -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote: > I highly suspect that the 64 bit version of FreeBSD in this > comparision was somehow doomed before it started. Opportunities are > leaving in kernel safety code in one of the kernels, a driver that > just doesn't work right on AMD64. Or the same for any of the > software, maybe php is hosed in its 64 bit build. If network throughput can effect the testing, I would suspect network drivers. I've found the re0 driver performs horrible on amd64. Especially with gigE. Cheers, Sean
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