wine on Intel Xeon processor

[Coleman Kane]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 10:51 -0600, Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin
Navea) wrote:
> Hi, sorry I didnt reply all so it would go to the wine list.
> 
> Is your Xeon a dual core, or possibly even 64-bit?  I doubt that 64-bit 
> compared to 32-bit would make a difference, but if the Xeon is a dc, it 
> might, as I recall another thread here saying that they were having 
> problems with a dual core system being slower.
> 
> The only other thing I can think of (of course I'm not that far along 
> with my programming skill, and I doubt it will make much difference 
> anyway) is what kind of machine the application and the dll were 
> compiled on.  If you have the source for either of those, and have 
> access to a xeon that is running windows (2003 server?) and can compile, 
> i'd suggest trying that, otherwise, I have no clue.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Tom
> 

If memory serves me right, many of the dual-core intel chips share some
on-chip components (such as the total cache). You'd get all of the cache
lines allocated to one chip in UP, and divided among the cores in SMP.
There are probably other resources on the chip for which this is the
case... perhaps that is a source of your slowness?

--
coleman kane

> Ananth M wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 2/10/06, *Ananth M* <mekaananth at gmail.com 
> > <mailto:mekaananth at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     The wine source code was compiled in the Xeon processor
> >      
> >     We had'nt recompiled the kernel with Xeon Processor , we are using
> >     the same that is coming with RHEL 4.0
> >
> >  
> >  
> >       Now I compiled the kernel again and used the new kernel Image. 
> > Still I am getting the same timings
> >  
> >
> >      
> >     On 2/9/06, *Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)* <
> >     speeddymon at gmail.com <mailto:speeddymon at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >         Are the wine binaries on the Xeon server precompiled (even
> >         copied from
> >         the P4 machine), or are they compiled on the Xeon server itself?
> >
> >         Also, has the kernel been recompiled with explicit support for
> >         the Xeon,
> >         or is it the stock kernel that comes with RHEL 4?
> >
> >         Tom
> >
> >         Ananth M wrote:
> >         > Hi All
> >         >
> >         >               I have a windows application that calls a
> >         function (
> >         >    approximately 10000 times) exported by a third party DLL.
> >         >                 I have two machines ( one with Intel pentium 4
> >         > processor and
> >         >    other with Intel Xeon processor ) with RHEL 4.0 installed
> >         on both
> >         > of these
> >         >    machine.
> >         >                If I execute the windows application on the first
> >         > machine (one
> >         >    with Intel pentium 4 processor ) using WINE, the execution
> >         time is
> >         > almost
> >         >    equal to the execution time in windows machine.
> >         >                But, if I execute the same application on the
> >         second
> >         > machine
> >         >    (Intel Xeon processor ), the execution time is almost 6
> >         times to
> >         > the first
> >         >    machine.
> >         >               I am using WINE-0.9.2 and wine is installed by
> >         > downloading the
> >         >    wine source code from winehq.org <http://winehq.org/> <
> >         http://winehq.org/>
> >         >               Is it a known issue (or )
> >         >               Do I need to do any additional configuration
> >         setting to
> >         > work with
> >         >    Intel Xeon processor ?
> >         >
> >         > Regards
> >         > Ajay
> >         > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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