Re: Intel P6 vs P7 system call performance

Dave Jones
2002-12-14T09:53:55Z

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:53:51PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Mike Dresser wrote:
>
> > The single P4/2.53 in another machine can haul down in 3m17s
> >
> Amend that to 2m19s, forgot to kill a background backup that was moving
> files around at about 20 meg a second.

Note that there are more factors at play than raw cpu speed in a
kernel compile. Your time here is slightly faster than my 2.8Ghz P4-HT for
example. My guess is you have faster disk(s) than I do, as most of
the time mine seems to be waiting for something to do.

*note also that this is compiling stock 2.4.20 with default configuration.
The minute you change any options, we're comparings apples to oranges.

Dave

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