amd64 slower than i386 on identical AMD 64 system?

[JoaoBR]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 15:46, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> OK.  Just as a general point of common sense: when you find things
> that aren't enabled by default, there's almost always a good reason
> for this.
>
> Sometimes the reason is clear (driver conflicts with another driver,
> etc), but for secret poorly-documented options that change kernel
> behaviour it should ring warning bells that it might not be a good
> idea to just set and forget.
>

as well may exist good reason to check them out, if nobody checks this things 
we never know about, right?

preemption and ipi_preemption are good theories (seems to me) and things like 
that are worth to be tried even knowing that they are in early stage

anyway I am not blaming somebody nor the OS for anything instead I tried to 
exchange experiences in first place.

>
> And above in the quoted text you said bad performance, so who knows
> what settings you had then :-) Maybe you're blaming something on
> polling that is really the fault of ULE.
>

ok but I am not that stupid to try a prototype scheduler and then blaming it 
for my mess

>
> It really sounds like it could be a broken BIOS on your system (check
> for upgrades).  AFAIK, dual-core systems are not known to have these
> problems in general.
>

well, that was my first thought too but makes no sense if the same happens on 
several different brands, anyway I checked and tested different bios versions 
on any board because the thing is important to me, I can not migrate 500 
servers having this problem 

also it is clearly X2 processor related since it doesn't appear when using a 
normal athlon64, then you may say ACPI is to blame what could be the case of 
Asus or Abit but the EPOX ACPI is very clean and appearently error free

My guess here is the shared memory access when running X2-SMP 


João







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