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Subject: Re: Fast single Athlon & Dual Athlon results w/ various engines

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 05:51:29 06/14/03

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On June 11, 2003 at 22:53:46, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>Would you run my favorite test?  Run two unique crafty processes on the
>dual at the same time, each using one processor.  Note the NPS.  Compare
>that to when you run a single crafty process using one cpu.  If the NPS
>values are pretty close, then the machine is doing well.  But it means
>that there is _something_ in Crafty that is causing problems through memory
>or cache issues...

I susupect it's related to cache size in some way.  Your quad PIII Xeons and my
Quad PIV Xeons both worked fine and they have 2MB cache.  The DP Xeons and
Athlons with only 512k both show the problem.

I have a couple dual 1.6Ghz Opterons with 1MB cache - I'll give them a go
tomorrow.



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