Benchmarks: AMD64 vs i386 on Dual 246 Opteron
ray at redshift.com
ray at redshift.com
Fri Jul 29 08:32:42 GMT 2005
At 04:50 PM 7/28/2005 -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
| On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 19:35 -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:
| > I highly suspect that the 64 bit version of FreeBSD in this
| > comparision was somehow doomed before it started. Opportunities are
| > leaving in kernel safety code in one of the kernels, a driver that
| > just doesn't work right on AMD64. Or the same for any of the
| > software, maybe php is hosed in its 64 bit build.
|
| If network throughput can effect the testing, I would suspect network
| drivers. I've found the re0 driver performs horrible on amd64.
| Especially with gigE.
|
| Cheers,
| Sean
Hi Sean,
Testing was done via localhost. That should let out the broadcam gigabit card.
Ray
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