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Performance on Ultrasparc T1 - Sun Netra T2000 hardware

807557Feb 7 2008 — edited Mar 12 2008
Hello,

Problem Statement:
We have many single threaded applications in our project. Performance of all these processes has been degraded on Netra T2000.
We have also observed performance degradation with simple shell script with just a "for loop: doing assignment of a variable".

Query:
What could be the best possible optimizations that could be done to get better performance?

We have recently moved from Sun Fire V440 to Sun Netra T2000.
Hardware configuration details are mentioned at the end.

We use Jboss Application Server in our project.
Version of Jboss used is 4.0.4.
Startup of Jboss is very slow on Netra T2000.

We tried the tuning parameters mentioned in the below link.
But, there is no improvement in the startup time.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/jboss_sf_t2000.jsp

Comparison data is specified below. tests have been performed with the Jboss downloaded from internet. No slimming was done.

Time for startup of Jboss:_
Sun Fire V440: *30 sec*
Sun Netra T2000: *1 min 30 sec*

Configuration of Sun Fire V440:_
SunOS dtcdevsrv1 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Fire V440
System clock frequency: 177 MHZ
Memory size: 8GB

E$ CPU CPU
CPU Freq Size Implementation Mask Status Location

0 1593 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line -
1 1593 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line -
2 1593 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line -
3 1593 MHz 1MB SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIIi 3.4 on-line -

Configuration of Sun Netra T2000:_
SunOS adcomlite3 5.10 Generic_125100-10 sun4v sparc SUNW,Netra-T2000
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4v Netra T2000
System clock frequency: 200 MHz
Memory size: 8184 Megabytes

CPU CPU
Location CPU Freq Implementation Mask

MB/CMP0/P0 0 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P1 1 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P2 2 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P3 3 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P4 4 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P5 5 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P6 6 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P7 7 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P8 8 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P9 9 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P10 10 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P11 11 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P12 12 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P13 13 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P14 14 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1
MB/CMP0/P15 15 1000 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-T1

Cheers~
IUnknown a.k.a Venkat

Comments

807557
Can you switch back to the v440? The v440 should be substantially better for singlethreaded performance... (I've used v440s before and indeed found them to be quite impressive, but have not managed to get my hands on a T1 yet to verify).
807557
We're having a similar problem, run mpstat and it'll show you what's going on.
Have had to recode application to take advantage of more than one "hardware
thread".<sigh>
807557
Hi,

the reason for your "problem" is that the 8 ? cores of the T2000 are not running at full speed of the CPU
itself. When i'm right two cores reside on one die on the chip -> 4 dies on the CPU and the
overall speed is divided by the number of dies.
With a speed of maybe 1 GHz each die has only 250 MHz available
instead of 1200 Mhz of 15 MHz on a V440

you can only benefit from the CMT technology of the T1 if you have many threads
working concurrently.

Frank
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