Re: Are Sunblade 1000s slow?

[Andrew Sharp <andy@ccpu.com>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 07:57:13PM +0200, Elie De Brauwer wrote:
> On Thursday 02 October 2003 19:29, Patrick Morris wrote:
> > Kent West wrote:
> > > snert[@macs54]:/home/snert> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > > cpu             : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)
> > > fpu             : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU
> > > promlib         : Version 3 Revision 5
> > > prom            : 4.5.16
> > > type            : sun4u
> > > ncpus probed    : 1
> > > ncpus active    : 1
> > > Cpu0Bogo        : 599.65

Er, that doesn't look right.  Even if you have one of those "hard-to-find"
(heh) sunblade1000's with a 600MHz cpu, then this should be more like
the other machines, ie., it should read Cpu0Bogo 1200.  I'd say you
need to do some fixin on your kernel/compiler, or somebody else does.
Most likely, the version of gcc3 that was used has some problem producing
code that works right on US3 cpus.  This machine should be significantly
faster to use than your P3.  Not only is the cpu faster, but the data
paths to memory and peripherals is a lot faster.

If you would like to send me your 1000 to play with for six months, I'm
sure I could figure out what's wrong.  ~:^)

And oh yeah, don't waste any more of your valuable time trying to figure
anything out with glxgears.

a

> > > Cpu0ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
> > > MMU Type        : Cheetah+
> >
> > Just for comparison, here's a dual-400 Ultra 2:
> >
> > cpu             : TI UltraSparc II  (BlackBird)
> > fpu             : UltraSparc II integrated FPU
> > promlib         : Version 3 Revision 19
> > prom            : 3.19.0
> > type            : sun4u
> > ncpus probed    : 2
> > ncpus active    : 2
> > Cpu0Bogo        : 799.53
> > Cpu0ClkTck      : 0000000017d76a6d
> > Cpu1Bogo        : 799.53
> > Cpu1ClkTck      : 0000000017d76a6d
> > MMU Type        : Spitfire
> > State:
> > CPU0:           online
> > CPU1:           online


> And while we're at it, this is a Sun Blade 100 with a 500 Mhz UltraSparc IIe.
> 
> helios@kafka:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo 
> cpu             : TI UltraSparc IIe
> fpu             : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU
> promlib         : Version 3 Revision 0
> prom            : 4.0.45
> type            : sun4u
> ncpus probed    : 1
> ncpus active    : 1
> Cpu0Bogo        : 1002.70
> Cpu0ClkTck      : 000000001debe980
> MMU Type        : Spitfire