On Thu, 2005-Dec-15 17:59:38 +0000, Pete French wrote: >Got some curiuous results when I tested this today by the way. >I have a twin processor PIII machine. Did a parallel compile on >it. The actuall wall clock time is faster when I add the 586 >back in. *but* if you look at the user and system times, the >user time has dropped slightly, but the system tme has gone up >a lot. So its doing more work, but with a slghtly greater amount >of parallelism allow it to finish faster in real time. > >Can anyone explain that ????
I can't see anything in the kernel source code to explain it. Since you don't mention actual times, is the difference statistically significant? (see src/tools/tools/ministat) -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
