From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261709AbVGTEjo (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:39:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261714AbVGTEjo (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:39:44 -0400 Received: from mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au ([211.29.132.189]:11711 "EHLO mail08.syd.optusnet.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261709AbVGTEjn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:39:43 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Gabriel Devenyi Subject: Re: amd64 Interbench Results Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 14:42:10 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 Cc: ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200507192246.31314.ace@staticwave.ca> In-Reply-To: <200507192246.31314.ace@staticwave.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507201442.10679.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:46 pm, Gabriel Devenyi wrote: > I've been using the the -ck patchset for a very long time, and I recently > switched to a amd64 arch. I found that while my throughput improved, my > system responsiveness has "felt" much lower than it did on my old x86 > machine. > > Now that interbench is around, I have some quantitative results. Attached > is my interbench results with *nothing* running other than agetty and a > single bash console. My system is an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+, > with 1gig DDR400 RAM. Also attached is my kernel config. > > Seems to me there are some pretty high latencies for such a powerful > system, is there anything I can do to improve this? Thanks for all your > help. Those results don't look too bad to me. Absolute numbers don't mean much in their own right unless you compare them to something else. Try a vanilla kernel and then compare the results side by side. Cheers, Con