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From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 12:04:41AM -0400, Jeff Walters wrote:
> I hate to even mentioned such an unscientific observation where I made 
> multiple changes at once, but I'll provide a data point.  I also saw this 
> problem crop up at the same time as I tried the SCHED_ULE scheduler a couple 
> of months ago.  I re-cvsup'ed CURRENT and switched back to SCHED_4BSD and it 
> went away.

I've only seen the behavior while using SCHED_4BSD, but I only switched to
the ULE scheduler on the 6th and haven't rebooted since..

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