Slow lmbench on IBM Netfinity

Paul Ho (pH7@paulho.com)
Wed, 08 Dec 1999 16:56:31 -0500


This is an IBM Netfinity 700 with 2x PPro 200MHz 1MB cache, running
Linux 2.2.13 in SMP.
The system boot up with no problem. It's AFAICT stable but very slow.

I ran lmbench on it and some of the lmbench number seem much slower than
the summary
<http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/lmbench-summary>

Overall, application performance seem to be 25% of a single 166MMX!

Following is the lmbench number:

L M B E N C H 1 . 9 S U M M A R Y
------------------------------------
(Alpha software, do not distribute)

Processor, Processes - times in microseconds - smaller is better
----------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz null null open selct sig sig fork
exec sh
call I/O stat clos inst hndl proc
proc proc
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- ---- ---- ----
---- ----
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 199 5.7 13. 287 336 1.53K 102.5 125 7.7K
43K 148K
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 199 5.7 13. 115 137 0.61K 40.7 50 3.2K
18K 68K

Context switching - times in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 2p/0K 2p/16K 2p/64K 8p/16K 8p/64K 16p/16K
16p/64K
ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw ctxsw
--------- ------------- ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ -------
-------
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 58 77 142 90 154 84 192
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 100 78 146 83 87 86 110

*Local* Communication latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 2p/0K Pipe AF UDP RPC/ TCP RPC/ TCP
ctxsw UNIX UDP TCP conn
--------- ------------- ----- ----- ---- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 58 253 678 730 1300 4025
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 100 139 311 538 761 2064

File & VM system latencies in microseconds - smaller is better
--------------------------------------------------------------
Host OS 0K File 10K File Mmap Prot
Page
Create Delete Create Delete Latency Fault
Fault
--------- ------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -----
-----
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 148 29 320 42 192374 44
7.5K
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 148 29 320 42 191531 20
7.4K

*Local* Communication bandwidths in MB/s - bigger is better
-----------------------------------------------------------
Host OS Pipe AF TCP File Mmap Bcopy Bcopy Mem
Mem
UNIX reread reread (libc) (hand) read
write
--------- ------------- ---- ---- ---- ------ ------ ------ ------ ----
-----
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 5 4 4 16 167 18 18
209 20
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 7 7 5 16 209 18 18
210 20

Memory latencies in nanoseconds - smaller is better
(WARNING - may not be correct, check graphs)
---------------------------------------------------
Host OS Mhz L1 $ L2 $ Main mem Guesses
--------- ------------- --- ---- ---- -------- -------
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 199 15 35 229
i686-linu Linux 2.2.13- 199 15 35 229

Any idea? Any help is appreciated..

TIA
Paul

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