Subject: Re: Ouch, ouch. NetBSD/SPARC 1.0 on IPC gets SPECint92 rating of 2.
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/03/1995 13:50:36
>> netbsd4me:1:28 [/tmp] % /usr/bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"
>> 93.26 real 70.64 user 0.61 sys
>
> Something must be wrong:
>
> NetBSD chroom 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (VOLVOX) #56: Wed Feb 1 22:38:45 MET 1995 \
> pk@chroom:/net/baloe/bsd/sys/arch/sparc/compile/VOLVOX sparc
> % /usr/bin/time sh -c "echo '2^8192' | bc > /dev/null"
> 2.77 real 2.55 user 0.16 sys
>
> (a Sun ELC)
I presume the "something" which "must be wrong" is the fact that I'm running
1.0, not 1.0A/-current? Or are all these (/usr/bin/time, sh, bc) all
statically linked (-:
Does this mean that the Mysterious Shared Memory Slowdown problem has been
fixed in -current?
If so, is there any chance of a back-port Official Patch for 1.0? I've got a
completely full SCSI bus and am very gun-shy about trying any kind of an
upgrade at the moment because of it ...
- Greg