From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Subject: Re: Terrible PA8800 SMP Performance
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:10:42 -0500
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:55:18PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
> I've been doing GCC builds on a four processor PA8800 currently
> running 2.6.24-rc6.  With make -j 6 bootstrap, this machine is
> several hours slower than gsyprf11 doing the same GCC build and
> check.  gsyprf11 is a two processor PA8700 and I typically
> use make -j 4 on it.  The PA8800 is also slower than my c3750.
> 

flushing 32MB of cache on every fork and exec? :/

cheers,
	kyle