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jarto wrote:
>Here's an updated version of my test program. In this one you
>can specify the number of names as a command line argument.
>It also saves the original names and results as text files as long
>as number of names does not exceed 100000.
>http://www.starsoft.fi/jarto/ParallelSortTest2.zip
>With my Dell Latitute E5500 with 2,40GHz P8600 I got this kind of results:
>Cores: 2
>4000000 names sorted in 00:13:360
>Cores: 1
>4000000 names sorted in 00:24:000
>But the biggest concern was, that the result files did not always match.
>One or a few names were not sorted properly in some of the test runs.
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,9359.0.html
As i have noticed , you are using this:
Intel Pentium Processor E5500
(2M Cache, 2.80 GHz, 800 MHz FSB)
http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42800
It has only *1* L2 cache of 2M.
I have used CPU-Z on my hardware:
and it gives me this:
Level 1 Data: 4 x 34 KBytes 8ways
Level 1 Inst.: 4 x 34 KBytes 8 ways
Level 2: 2 x 4096 KBytes 16 ways
So, mine has *2* L2 caches of 4M
So, when i am quicksorting a big array on 1 core ,
there is much higher cache misses than
on 2 threads/2 cores - cause i am breaking the array
in 4 parts and quicksorting in parallel, also ,
i have 2 x L2 caches of 4M - and you have only one
one on your E5500 - and this explains my results...
>But the biggest concern was, that the result files did not
>always >match. One or a few names were not sorted
>properly in some of the test runs.
As i have noticed, you are using this:
TestParallelSort(10000,1,4); //Tests 10000 names with 1 -> 4 cores.
The number of cores *MUST* be 2^N: 1,2,4 etc.
I have reproduced your problem with a number of cores
equal to 3.
So, you have to avoid *3*, example: 1,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16 etc.
Try to use a number that is not 3 and that is 2^N,
example: 1,2,4,6,8 ,10,12,14,16 etc.
And you will be safe :)
Welcome: http://pages.videotron.com/aminer/
Sincerely,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.
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jarto wrote:
>Yes, I can reproduce the same problem with ctHeapSort.
> It can also be reproduced with Delphi 7.
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,9359.msg46017/topicseen.html#new
Here it is jarto , i have solved the problem, you can
download version 2.11 from my website:
http://pages.videotron.com/aminer/
Please test it and tell me if all is ok...
Note: the problem was not on my algorithm , it was
very difficult to spot the problem ...
Sincerely,
Amine.

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