amd64 slower than i386 on identical AMD 64 system?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 05:54:27PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 March 2006 17:39, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > Yes, but the problem is that you didn't stop and file a bug report
> > when you learned of the problems (and then turn off the broken
> > option), but instead wrote an email in which you made the broad claim
> > that FreeBSD's SMP support was unstable.
> >
> 
> whats that now? absolutly not true
> 
> read the thread again and show me where I said that but to help you out: I 
> said that I (I!) have problems with X2 processor with very specific memory 
> amount installed on certain hardware when SMP is enabled
> 
> don't turn my words around

You said:

> I can confirm this too
> SMP amd64s are having constant crashes when running >2GB and <4GB of RAM.
> In order not getting anything wrong I am talking about X2-SMP mono-chip-MBs
> this is not happening on dual-chip-MB with two separate processors.
> I run the same hardware as UP-amd64 and it never crashes
> Since this crashes are more frequent with IPI_PREEMPTION I have now some
> servers under test running without PREEMPTION at all and appearently the
> crashes are gone

The claim in this paragraph is that it is necessary to disable the
(default) PREEMPTION option in order for FreeBSD not to crash on these
systems, i.e. FreeBSD is unstable by default.

But what you actually did was enable the non-default IPI_PREEMPTION
option, which may cause crashes, and then instead of just turning it
off again you turned off both this and PREEMPTION.

Anyway, maybe there is just a language issue and you didn't manage to
express yourself well.

> > > well, that was my first thought too but makes no sense if the same
> > > happens on several different brands,
> >
> > Why not?  It is well-documented that many motherboards need BIOS
> > updates to work correctly with dual-core CPUs.
> >
> 
> you are more clever than that aren't you? Or do you try to get clever with me?
> 
> means: makes no sense that the bios is broken on all MBs I tried
> 
> overall you cut the important thing where I said that I did tried other bios 
> versions
> 
> and what you say here has nothing to do with all of this because the bios 
> updates you're talking about are necessary on certain MBs in order to 
> recognize the X2 - so we are beyond this point ...

No, you haven't ruled it out, only that none of the versions you tried
fix your issue.  Note what I said earlier: other people use dual core
CPUs on FreeBSD/amd64 without stability problems, so it is not a
general problem with FreeBSD.

Kris

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