Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Josh Carroll
> Josh, thanks for your help so far. This has been very useful. You're welcome, glad to help! Thanks for the effort and the patch. > Any testing you can run this through is appreciated. Anyone else lurking > in this thread who would like to is also welcome to report back findings. Here are a f

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: What would be interesting to know is if the sum of the temperatures is any different. 4BSD gets a much more random distribution of load because a thread is run on whatever cpu context switches next. ULE will have specific load patterns since it scans lis

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Josh Carroll
> What would be interesting to know is if the sum of the temperatures is any > different. 4BSD gets a much more random distribution of load because a > thread is run on whatever cpu context switches next. ULE will have > specific load patterns since it scans lists of cpus in a fixed order to > as

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Josh Carroll
> What was the -j value and number of processors? -j 8. I did the following (one warm up, 3 times in a row after that, averaged): cd /usr/src rm -rf /usr/obj/* make clean time make -j8 -DNOCLEAN buildworld The system is a Q6600, so 4 cores. Thanks, Josh

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: What was the -j value and number of processors? -j 8. I did the following (one warm up, 3 times in a row after that, averaged): cd /usr/src rm -rf /usr/obj/* make clean time make -j8 -DNOCLEAN buildworld The system is a Q6600, so 4 cores. Josh, than

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Josh Carroll
> buildworld isn't cooperating for me, but once I iron that out, I'll > post some results there as well :) I was able to get buildworld compiling ok and here are the results: 4BSDULE.13ULE.7 13:24.7313:44.2813:38.85 Only a 1.75% difference when the slice value is set to 7

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-03 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: buildworld isn't cooperating for me, but once I iron that out, I'll post some results there as well :) I was able to get buildworld compiling ok and here are the results: 4BSDULE.13ULE.7 13:24.7313:44.2813:38.85 Only a 1.75% dif