On 10/20/10 10:48 AM, David Wolfskill wrote:
[...]
The 8.x reference machine was created by cloning the 7.x reference
machine (the OS "drive" is a RAID 1; I broke the mirror and physically
booted the (soon-to-be) 8.x machine from a single drive from the
7.x mirror, changed the hostname& IP address, then allowed the
RAID firmware on the controller to "re-silver" that mirror). Once
that finished, I performed a fairly standard source upgrade to 8.0-R
on one slice, cloned that slice, booted from the cloned slice, and
did a source upgrade to more recent points along the stable/8 branch,
culminating with the above-cited 8.1-STABLE #5 r214029. At this
point, I've left the installed ports alone, except that the 8.x
slices have the compat7x port installed.
[...]
try the 7.x machine but running the 8.x kernel.. i.e. change nothing,
but boot the new kernel.
FWIW, the workload is fairly CPU intensive during most of the run; the
I/O done during (most of) the test appears to be very light, and the
memory used is fairly modest. In each of the test machines, I have
turned off HTT (HyperThreading Technology); hw.ncpu reports 8 for each.
try with HTT on for modern hardware..
Thanks!
Peace,
david
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