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From: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@altlinux.ru>
To: ALT Linux general discussion list <community@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: [Comm] Fwd: К вопросу о ядросборке (was: [TuxOnIce-devel] "How to Slow Down Your Computer Needlessly", a	guide :))
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:13:30 +0500
Message-ID: <20080228181330.GE32416@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain> (raw)

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----- Forwarded message from Kenneth Crudup <kenny/panix.com> -----

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:47:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenneth Crudup <kenny/panix.com>
To: suspend2-devel/lists.tuxonice.net
Subject: [TuxOnIce-devel] "How to Slow Down Your Computer Needlessly",
	a guide :)


For some reason, I thought the Intel 760 processor ("Dothan" technology,
2.0GHz speed, 533MHz FSB) was a Pentium 4 architecture, so when building
my kernels, would select CONFIG_MPENTIUM4. Performance, esp. on multi-
threaded applications, seemed sluggish.

Turns out that this chip's merely a Pentium M (CONFIG_MPENTIUMM), so the
calculations to determine the cache-line size in the memory-management
routines (and other places) was off by a factor of two larger so I was
no doubt getting cacheline misses some 50% of the time- not to mention
the kernel was using P4 optimizations (and maybe even instructions but
I never got BUG()s/OOPSes) on a P3-arch CPU.

The machine is visibly more responsive now. I'd been running that way
for probably over a year.

	-Kenny

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