From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 13 00:29:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B754E1065672; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:29:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F52614FAE3; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EE69C5A.3090005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:29:14 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111110 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "O. Hartmann" References: <4EE1EAFE.3070408@m5p.com> <4EE22421.9060707@gmail.com> <4EE6060D.5060201@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4EE6060D.5060201@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Current FreeBSD , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default 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: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:29:15 -0000 On 12/12/2011 05:47, O. Hartmann wrote: > Do we have any proof at hand for such cases where SCHED_ULE performs > much better than SCHED_4BSD? I complained about poor interactive performance of ULE in a desktop environment for years. I had numerous people try to help, including Jeff, with various tunables, dtrace'ing, etc. The cause of the problem was never found. I switched to 4BSD, problem gone. This is on 2 separate systems with core 2 duos. hth, Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/