[NCLUG] July 1, 2003 talk - Linux System Performance

[Benson Chow]

Crappy hardware here, results on url because of 80col wrapping:

P4-2.4B Northwood 12Kuop/8K L1D, 512KB L2U Cache 533MHz FSB, ECS P4VXASD2+
V5.0 (Via P4X333), 512MB DDR SDRAM
   http://q.dyndns.org/~blc/mbench/mbench_out_yuna.txt
Comments: didn't expect the drop off to occur as fast around the 512KB
mark.  Do I really have 512K cache in this thing?  Seems a lot of people
have cache performance drop-offs on intel cpu machines just at
the working set size hits l2 cache size.  Something weird going on here.

Athlon Thunderbird 850MHz, 64K L1, 256K L2, 200MHz FSB, Chaintech 7AIA
(Via KT133), 384MB SDRAM
   http://q.dyndns.org/~blc/mbench/mbench_out_midgar.txt
Comments: None, bench dropoffs occur about as expected.

Other notes: Distributed.net client running in background at lowest
priority level on both machines

To come later: Athlon XP2100+ + SiS746 (SDR), and Intel Pentium III
Tualitin 1066 + i830, and maybe Dual Celeron 464 + i82440BX