Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-30 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:52:30AM -0400 I heard the voice of Vivek Khera, and lo! it spake thus: > > The amd64 memory architecture is NUMA -- that is, depending on how > your RAM is layed out, some of it is faster to access for each > processor. Accessing RAM "local" to the other processor(s) i

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Bob Willcox
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:57:06PM +0200, Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > I've tried two benchmarks to check the speed of my > system on two FreeBSD architectures i386 and amd64. > I've never seen anyone posting this kind of benchmark, > so here is what I found out: > > here the results of nbench: > h

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: The amd64 memory architecture is NUMA -- that is, depending on how your RAM is layed out, some of it is faster to access for each processor. Accessing RAM "local" to the other processor(s) is slower. There are many subtle issues relating to

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 26, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Martin wrote: Please notice the memory speed penalties while the system is running on amd64 kernel. I would like to know what causes this kind of low performance when memory is being accessed. The amd64 memory architecture is NUMA -- that is, depending on how y

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Björn König
Martin wrote: But I'm impressed by the RELENG_6 results. I think I'm going to upgrade my system instantly. Yes, the results are slightly better, even the support of amd64 appears to be much better, but I would be careful; it's easy to overrate benchmark results. There is a lot that you can d

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:57:06PM +0200, Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > I've tried two benchmarks to check the speed of my > system on two FreeBSD architectures i386 and amd64. My results for amd64 (haven't tried i386): Hardware: Athlon64 3400+ (2.4 GHz, 400 MHz FSB) MSI Neo FSR (MSI-6702) 2x512 MB

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-26 Thread Martin
Björn König wrote: > You might want to have a look at my private benchmarks too: > > http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/benchmark.html Hmmm... your benchmarks show the same effect as I have on 5.4. But I'm impressed by the RELENG_6 results. I think I'm going to upgrade my system instantly.

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-26 Thread Björn König
You might want to have a look at my private benchmarks too: http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/benchmark.html Björn ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-26 Thread Martin
Hi, I've tried two benchmarks to check the speed of my system on two FreeBSD architectures i386 and amd64. I've never seen anyone posting this kind of benchmark, so here is what I found out: here the results of nbench: http://phpfi.com/71540 here is what openssl speed gives me: http://phpfi.co