RE: Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-25 Thread John Baldwin
On 23-Mar-2002 Jeff Roberson wrote: I saw some similar weirdness in my test machines last night where a dual processor DS20 (Alpha 21264 500x2) beat out a PII Xeon 450x4. Normally the quad xeon beats the DS20. The quad xeon was using -j16 but was about 74% idle. The DS20 had used -j8.

Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread David Wolfskill
On a 0 - 10 weirdness scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question were not expected. (And yes, I understand that a degree of uncertainty with respect to

RE: Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread John Baldwin
On 22-Mar-2002 David Wolfskill wrote: On a 0 - 10 weirdness scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question were not expected. (And yes, I understand

Re: Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, David Wolfskill wrote: On a 0 - 10 weirdness scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question were not expected. (And yes, I

Re: Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread Terry Lambert
Robert Watson wrote: On a 0 - 10 weirdness scale, this ranks about a 4, perhaps, so it's hardly earth-shattering. But it's odd enough that I thought that a small reality check might be in order, in case the effect(s) in question were not expected. (And yes, I understand that a degree of

Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread Jeff Roberson
I saw some similar weirdness in my test machines last night where a dual processor DS20 (Alpha 21264 500x2) beat out a PII Xeon 450x4. Normally the quad xeon beats the DS20. The quad xeon was using -j16 but was about 74% idle. The DS20 had used -j8. I didn't get a chacne to run top to

Re: Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:43:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you both running with WITNESS and INVARIANTS? UMA is slightly slower with these options on than the original malloc vm_zone code. I'm not sure why it would be even worse for SMP machines though. So maybe it

Re: Peculiar(?) slowdown with -CURRENT as of 21 March

2002-03-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 06:34:00PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 20:43:03 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you both running with WITNESS and INVARIANTS? UMA is slightly slower with these options on than the original malloc vm_zone code. I'm not