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SubjectRe: Matrox FB console driver
time prime before x
real 1m23.535s
user 0m40.550s
sys 0m42.980s

/proc/mtrr before x
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xfd800000 (4056MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1

time prime after x
real 0m48.732s
user 0m41.070s
sys 0m7.690s

/proc/mtrr after x
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xfd800000 (4056MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1

time prime in X
real 0m42.835s
user 0m41.180s
sys 0m1.710s

/proc/version
Linux version 2.4.3-ac12 (root@bigandy) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #15 SMP Mon Apr 23 19:35:33 CDT 2001

/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 1
model name : Pentium Pro
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 199.312
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
bogomips : 397.31

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 1
model name : Pentium Pro
stepping : 7
cpu MHz : 199.312
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
bogomips : 398.13


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On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:

> > I was playing around with a program that I was using to time differences
> > between kernels (a silly prime program that puts out 1000000 primes). I
> > noticed a very strange behaviour. On a fresh boot, with the Penguin
> > pictures that the Matrox FB driver puts up, the prime program runs
> > 1 minute, 30 seconds. If I reset, it still runs 1M30S. If I start X,
> > and exit, it runs 48 seconds. Is this a known behaviour? Thanks.
>
> do you mean that running and exiting X makes your computer faster?
> is /proc/mtrr sane at both times?
>

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