On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, V.I.Victor wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
V.I.Victor wrote:
I've two 5.4 desktop boxes. Pretty much the same installation; both
from the same CD, same apps, no monitor/keyboard, 1-user logged-on via
ssh (command-line only w/no gui) and otherwise lightly loaded.
Box_A: CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (598.84-MHz 686-class CPU)
avail memory = 121630720 (115 MB)
ACPI disabled by blacklist.
Box_B: CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz (1794.19-MHz 686-class CPU)
avail memory = 252186624 (240 MB)
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
...
Yes. On my virtual machine with ACPI:
dev.cpu.0.freq: 2653
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 2653/-1 2321/-1 1989/-1 1658/-1 1326/-1 994/-1 663/-1
331/-1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg | grep 26
FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #5: Tue Jul 17 08:22:26 UTC 2007
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz (2666.79-MHz K8-class
CPU)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2666794890 Hz quality 800
What are the following sysctls set to?
kern.clockrate
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest
dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest
dev.cpu.0.cx_usage
Thanks for the reply! I don't seem to have the last 2 you've asked about.
'sysctl -a | egrep "clockrate|cpu"' reported the following:
kern.clockrate: { hz = 100, tick = 10000, profhz = 1024, stathz = 128 }
kern.threads.virtual_cpu: 1
kern.ccpu: 1948
kern.smp.maxcpus: 1
kern.smp.cpus: 1
hw.ncpu: 1
hw.clockrate: 1794
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_supported: C1/0
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1
hw.acpi.cpu.cx_usage: 100.00%
machdep.cpu_idle_hlt: 1
dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU
dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu
dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0
dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0
dev.cpu.0.%parent: acpi0
dev.cpu.0.freq: 1796
dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 1796/-1 1571/-1 1347/-1 1122/-1 898/-1 673/-1 449/-1
224/-1
dev.acpi_throttle.0.%parent: cpu0
dev.cpufreq.0.%driver: cpufreq
dev.cpufreq.0.%parent: cpu0
Do you have SMP enabled? If so, please realize that you won't benefit from it
at all because the chip you have (Willamette) doesn't support SMP
(Hyperthreading or multi-core processing). In fact this may hinder your
processing a bit, because I believe that adding SMP adds more complicated
algorithms and additional job constraints to the kernel scheduler; I could be
incorrect though.
You also might be able to tune the kernel clock rate to obtain better
performance; I forget what the values were for sysctl, but if you search around
the current@ archives a bit, there was a discussion involving VMware and clock
tuning approximately 2-3 months ago which details this issue, and possible
solutions.
-Garrett
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