I am slightly confused whether I should post 5.3 BETA related stuff here or in stable_at_, so feel free to chastise me as appropriate. I have fairly simple program which is heavily CPU bound and could be easily parallelized. Recently I laid my hands on dual AMD64 no-brand machine and installed 5.3 BETA1 on it. With SCHED_ULE, no number of threads would deliver more then single CPU performance, and 'top' will report 50% CPU utilization. With SCHED_4BSD, two threads would deliver ~185% of single CPU performance and 'top' will report 100% spent in userland. Test application could be found here: http://members.verizon.net/~akovalenko/PDFPassword.tar.gz To build, just type 'make'. To run, type ./PDFPassword OValue <# of threads to start> I use this benchmark on variety of MP hardware (Sun, RS/6000, Intel) and throughput usually follows number of threads up to number of available CPU. I will bring this system up to RELENG_5 as of Saturday (9/4) morning EST some time on Monday and retest. I can also test patches or try oprions as needed. Unfortunately, I would not be able to provide remote access to this box. --- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.Received on Sat Sep 04 2004 - 23:47:02 UTC
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