RE: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-05 Thread Matthew Dillon
:FWIW, if you set the machdep.cpu_idle_hlt=1, your power will :go down considerably (our AC inlet power dropped 0.94A @ 110V). :The performance will also go up considerably. : :HTT seems to get a lot of bad press on this list, and its due :to this sysctl having the wrong default. Sheesh, nobod

RE: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-05 Thread Don Bowman
From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:04:35PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > >>I installed Fr

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-05 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 01:04:35PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > >>I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Mikulas Patocka
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway writes: > >Yes, that's because (as discussed in the archives) the kernel treats > >it like an extra, completely decoupled physical CPU and schedules > >processes on it without further consideration. This is presumably the > >cause of the slowdown, be

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel wit

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:54:45PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1:09 > hyperthreading kernel, make -j 2 --- 0:42 > singlethreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 0:45 > singlethreading kernel, make -j 2 --- 0:41 [snip] > >Yes, that's because (as di

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Ian Dowse
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kris Kennaway writes: >Yes, that's because (as discussed in the archives) the kernel treats >it like an extra, completely decoupled physical CPU and schedules >processes on it without further consideration. This is presumably the >cause of the slowdown, because it's

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Richard Coleman
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is boot

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > >>I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see > >>drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For exa

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Richard Coleman
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example program compilation took this time: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 ---

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see > drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example > program compilation took this time: > > hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1

Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel with hyperthreading is booted. For example program compilation took this time: hyperthreading kernel, make -j 1 --- 1:09 hyperthreading kernel, make -j 2 --- 0:42 singlethreading kernel, make -j