Josh Carroll wrote:
Does anyone have a theory why syscalls are so expensive in FreeBSD? Here are the results of unixbench 4.1 on two machines. First is the machine running FreeBSD HEAD (debugging disabled) on a dual-core Athlon 64 (i386 mode), 2 GHz:I ran the syscall benchmark from UnixBench on the same hardware (Intel Q6600 @ 3.2 GHz) for both FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 (amd64) and Knoppix 5.1 (Linux 2.6.9 PREEMPT kernel, i386). Per the comments in this thread, i386 syscalls should be less expensive than amd64 syscalls, so the results are interesting: FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 (amd64): System Call Overhead 15000.0 1103233.7 735.5 Knoppix Linux 2.6.9 (i686): System Call Overhead 15000.0 1108869.7 739.2 I can try to find a Linux live CD with a 2.6.x x86-64 kernel for a valid apples-to-apples comparison, but thought these results might provide some parity/insight. Doesn't look like the syscalls are slower at all on FreeBSD. Josh _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Per later discussion you will also need to either comment out the syscalls that are (might be) being cached by glibc to artificially inflate its reported rate, or verify that it is not doing so.
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