freebsd vs linux: performance problem
Erich Dollansky
oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Thu Dec 13 20:41:21 PST 2007
Hi,
Shantanu Ghosh wrote:
> --- Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>
>> Shantanu Ghosh wrote:
>>> --- Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>>>
>> I have had once the problem of a task moving from CPU to CPU and s
>> performing badly on FreeBSD.
>>
>> I am not informed how this is handled currently.
>
> This could be something I am facing. I noticed that when I run vmstat
> while running this code, on linux, there's hardly any perceptible
> difference in the number of context switches, but on freebsd, the
> number of context switches in the system seems to go up a bit. However,
> this is not very reliable.
>
> Do you know how I can check this migration?
I forgot how I checked it.
>
> While I have not tried it on this machine, on a single cpu machine, the
> non-SMP build of freebsd seems to perform as well as linux for this
> kind of test.
Ok, this could then be a hint that the task is simply migrating.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
No not praise the day before night falls.
Erich
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