ubench on v6 a v7

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Tue May 20 14:38:29 UTC 2008


Karel Rous wrote:
>    My home computer (no internet access, cannot share results :-) is 
> single processor Athlon 64 on 2250 Mhz/512 KB L2. Visually I have seen 
> that on stable it doesn't behave as speedily as on FreeBSD number 6. I 
> have checked utility in subject (which is probably not the best 
> alternative) and it shows me on memory test half of the speed that was 
> in v6 while using default MALLOC_OPTIONS at each version. There could be 
> certain speed up changing it but IMHO there can not be any we to make it 
> as fast as in previous version. Is there anyone who could make a logical 
> explanation? (I think it has something to do with new malloc 
> optimization for multi processor systems but I might compiled also libc 
> on FreeBSD 7 with wrong options). Even using simple compat6x libc (with 
> libmap.conf) helps to speed up things there.
>    All those measurement are my just my non generalized opinion and I 
> hope I am wrong :-)

If you can confirm your results in a clean environment, you might want 
to talk to jasone@ about this.

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