Subject: Re: Thread benchmarks, round 2
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/09/2007 14:34:00
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 05:04:32PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20071008152542.GA2173@colwyn.zhadum.org.uk>,
> Matthias Scheler  <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:
> >On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 05:53:45PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >> NetBSD's amd64 performance sucks right now. My DELL WS 470, runs a *lot*
> >> slower with NetBSD/amd64 than running NetBSD/i386...
> >
> >What kind of CPUs does that machine have? The EM64T support in Intel's
> >Netburst CPUs is well known for its bad performance.
> >
> 
> cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: (boot processor)
> cpu0:                   Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz, 3391.64 MHz
> cpu0: features: bffbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
> cpu0: features: bffbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,B20,DS,ACPI,MMX>
> cpu0: features: bffbfbff<FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF>
> cpu0: features2: 649d<SSE3,MONITOR,DS-CPL,EST,CID,xTPR>
> cpu0: features3: bffbfbff<SYSCALL/SYSRET,XD,EM64T>
> cpu0: L2 cache 1 MB 64B/line 8-way

I'm still not sure what CPU this is based on the above output. Can you
perhaps have a look at what the BIOS calls it?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/