On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:18:24AM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
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> Here is the initial run with CVS HEAD sources (I took out the obvious 
> things from GENERIC.MP like I386_CPU support, etc, and removed the 
> default datasize and stack size limits).  Same benchmark config that 
> Andrew is using, etc.
> 
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/netbsd.png

Is this system running an amd64 kernel, or an i386 kernel?  One thing I
noticed when comparing NetBSD and FreeBSD performance for a very diferent
workload recently was that NetBSD/amd64 is missing even the most recent
optimized i386 versions of some fairly basic stuff like memset, memcpy,
copyin/copyout, much less versions tuned for modern processors (e.g. for
set and copy SSE2 instructions can be used if you know they're present, as
we do know on amd64).  I suspect FreeBSD/amd64 is better about this.

Thor