Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:24:05 -0400 From: George Mitchell <george@m5p.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client Message-ID: <4D8A7305.5010805@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimeygQ%2BPb0UZjM2-6BpcDi2fDq8te7akY99FX4Y@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D8A61FC.3050303@m5p.com> <AANLkTimeygQ%2BPb0UZjM2-6BpcDi2fDq8te7akY99FX4Y@mail.gmail.com>
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On 03/23/11 17:57, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > Have you tried 8 stable? The box I tried SCHED_4BSD on was running 8.2_PRERELEASE, which still had the problem described. Has the scheduler changed significantly between 8.2_PRERELEASE and stable? -- George Mitchell > On 23 Mar 2011 22:12, "George Mitchell"<george+freebsd@m5p.com> 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" > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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