From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 22:20:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12A5106564A for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:20:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mgamsjager@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yx0-f182.google.com (mail-yx0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4E38FC1C for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxl31 with SMTP id 31so4204475yxl.13 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:20:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=3qht3UD+gh/RVTxUkJhbNDay9KHpdUwVO1YcX917j1E=; b=IpFj+lBe+T/RgVD6L8y++gMA7BSP1vFWAC1KszayGj3h0QqYO/vN25WBCzhZtTaP1O 8JtRFHKEMECYI4HPSCLF6xUKLu7e8ySmplkOxWHs5CokamlneVbnClYeS2Fh49dzJjrZ aw2uGCZWcCgkqUoNTuY3tCHhbUOEnamgiB9wE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=AbX0PcGJ5waz9hz3ADZcs+WJlk3Jy+QNDD10PGZtLbkDCNwVELIBc5RRfiMnWl78f6 Rd479rQo8ocE9EqyZ44u0x8fpYMJN/aSpqWv53pBb/vAiI2xYHH/qYk6NBGO4Cu40MiM tZWpEu6ef6MT79xQnny6H2xLn/xDbFImALNOw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.101.53.17 with SMTP id f17mr3825097ank.142.1300917447204; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.249.14 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:57:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.249.14 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:57:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D8A61FC.3050303@m5p.com> References: <4D8A61FC.3050303@m5p.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:57:27 +0100 Message-ID: From: Matthias Gamsjager To: George Mitchell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:20:34 -0000 Have you tried 8 stable? On 23 Mar 2011 22:12, "George Mitchell" wrote: > Original message, from ten months ago: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031915.html > > Briefly, running the distributed.net client on my FreeBSD 8.0 box > made Firefox take forever to start up (90 seconds vs. 2 seconds). > The distributed.net client is essentially 100% CPU bound, with > occasional file I/O and even more occasional socket I/O, running > at nice 20. The problem has persisted since then. > > So I finally compiled up a kernel using SCHED_4BSD instead of > SCHED_ULE. Problem fixed. > > It still doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling about FreeBSD 8.0, > since I still have the awful NFS client performance problem (though > not as bad as before the Rick Macklem patch). -- George Mitchell > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"