From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 04:13:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1671216A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.yadt.co.uk (yadt.demon.co.uk [158.152.4.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E146044032 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 04:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidt@yadt.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1805 invoked from network); 30 Sep 2003 11:13:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.gattaca.yadt.co.uk) (@10.0.0.2) by yadt.demon.co.uk with SMTP; 30 Sep 2003 11:13:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 57188 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Sep 2003 11:12:59 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:12:59 +0100 From: David Taylor To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030930111259.GA39486@gattaca.yadt.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: current@freebsd.org References: <200309300013.18903.aoiko@cc.ece.ntua.gr> <20030929181154.E99666-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030929181154.E99666-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Status of SCHED_ULE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:13:09 -0000 On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Jeff Roberson wrote: > Are you running seti, rc4, etc? Any programs that sit in the background > and consume 100% of the cpu? > I'm running KDE (using libc_r), and run setiathome and/or dnetc in the background. I've also tried killing the background tasks, but it makes little difference. I also use moused and /dev/sysmouse for X. I've even tried renicing moused to negative nice values, and that doesn't change much either. The mouse gets 'sticky' under moderate/heavy load, as other people have described. I haven't swapped back to SCHED_4BSD recently to compare, but I'm sure it was smoother before I switched. -- David Taylor davidt@yadt.co.uk "The future just ain't what it used to be"