> 5.3 ships with SMP turned on, which makes lock operations rather > expensive on single-processor machines. 4.x does not have SMP > turned on by default. Would you be able to re-run your test with > SMP turned off?
I just ran a test here with SMP turned of on 5.4-RC4 (GENERIC) I got the following result: 67.52 real 41.13 user 26.16 sys 7034 involuntary context switches i.e. it still has system time a a huge proportion of the total compared to the 4.11 kernel. Interesingly, after reading Holger Kipp's results I tried it on a genuine multi-processor box with SMP enabled running 5.3. He got a very small percentage of the time in sys (3.51 out of 81.90) but I got: 255.30 real 160.20 user 88.50 sys Once again a far higher proprtion of the time spent in sys than you would expect. -pcf. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"