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Date:      Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:56:45 -0500
From:      Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: amd64 slower than i386 on identical AMD 64 system?
Message-ID:  <44188D9D.8010801@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060315211307.GA88339@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200603140740.38388.joao@matik.com.br>	<200603151728.35620.joao@matik.com.br>	<20060315203922.GA87806@xor.obsecurity.org>	<200603151754.27250.joao@matik.com.br> <20060315211307.GA88339@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> No, you haven't ruled it out, only that none of the versions you tried
> fix your issue.  Note what I said earlier: other people use dual core
> CPUs on FreeBSD/amd64 without stability problems, so it is not a
> general problem with FreeBSD.
>   

Indeed, they are. The system below is working just fine for me, and the 
performance is quite good too (for a pentium4). It's a Supermicro PDSMi 
board:

6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Mar  7 12:24:51 EST 
2006     amd64

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz K8-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf62  Stepping = 2
  
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
  Features2=0xe43d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>,<b15>>
  AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
  Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs
real memory  = 535691264 (510 MB)
avail memory = 510017536 (486 MB)
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs




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