Optimizing Alpha

[Laurent Jacques <ljacques@fyma.ucl.ac.be>]

Hello,

I'm using debian woody on Miata au433 since about one year. 

Here is my complete configuration:
===
$> cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.16 (gcc version 2.95.4 20011006 (Debian prerelease)) #5 Thu 
Feb 21 11:25:22 CET 2002

$> cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu                     : Alpha
cpu model               : EV56
...
system type             : Miata
...
cycle frequency [Hz]    : 433162065 est.
timer frequency [Hz]    : 1024.00
page size [bytes]       : 8192
phys. address bits      : 40
max. addr. space #      : 127
BogoMIPS                : 858.04
...
platform string         : Digital Personal WorkStation 433au
cpus detected           : 1

$> cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  325599232 307568640 18030592        0  8011776 226066432
Swap: 359849984 125001728 234848256
MemTotal:       317968 kB
...
===

Because I found my machine very slow, I ran the unixbench benchmark 
(http://www.tux.org/pub/tux/niemi/unixbench/) to test this assumption.

This program gives a score for every machine. The problem is the my score 
(30.8) is lower than an alpha 266Mhz with the 128Mb memory !?

So, my question is: How do you have optimized your alpha machine with debian 
linux ? Is there some optimization flags to put in the kernel ? Does I have 
to change my gcc version ?

Thanks for your help,
Laurent.
 









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