Re: amd64 Interbench Results

[Con Kolivas]

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
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