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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 12:15:57 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Nick Craig-Wood <ncw1@axis.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0 Huge pages not working as expected
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 08:10:11PM +0000, Nick Craig-Wood wrote:
> Any other ideas?
> (Interesting note - the 700 MHz P3 laptop is nearly twice as fast as
> the 1.7 GHx P4 dekstop (261ms vs 489ms) at the span 4096 case, but the
> P4 beats the P3 by a factor of 23 for the stride 1 (3ms vs 71 ms)!)

Well, at this point I'd say point oprofile at it to try to figure
out what the overhead(s) are causing the degradation.


-- wli