amd64 on Tyan Thunder K8

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 2 15:09:57 PST 2003


On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:10:07PM -0800, daneel wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:29:12PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:41:59PM -0800, daneel wrote:
> > > Using a production bios on this board with acpi enabled. Thought I 
> > > would post the dmesg to confirm that it is bios related and not 
> > > a bug of sorts. Thanks much.
> > 
> > Which Tyan Thunder K8?  There are several?
> 
> On the Tyan 2880 motherboard. Configuration is one Opteron 240 and 
> 2 gigs of ram with bank and node interleaving turned on in acpi mode.

BTW, setting "node interleaving" on doesn't make sense with one CPU.
In general people see better performance with it turned off when >1 CPU.
But some real world enterprise workloads get higher performance with it
turned on.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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