From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@9fans.net From: erik quanstrom Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:09:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1216240701.4327.22.camel@goose.sun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] 8 cores Topicbox-Message-UUID: e9020506-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:28 -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >> coming as no suprise, the pc port of plan 9 >> does work just fine with 8 cores. >> >> mpls; cat /dev/sysstat >> 0 14271 213501 3399 1116 0 0 0 99 0 > > Looking at the output 99% is idle time. Have you had a chance to > look at this system when it is fully loaded with something > meaningful? not really. a kernel compile from ramfs took about 2.9s with an average of more than 3s of cpu used for every second of real time. a compile from the fs over a gigabit link took about 1s longer, but used far less cpu. neither is particular impressive, but i'm not using a great percentage of the cycles available ( ~3/8) and i am using the slowest processor on the sheet and, due to my misreading of the datasheet, i have only half the memory channels populated. did you have anything specific in mind? - erik