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

[Jim Wildman]

Where do you get mbench?  I'll run it on some server class hardware.

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Jim Wildman, CISSP, RHCE                                jim at rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Benson Chow wrote:

> 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
> 
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