Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 20:25:42 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, marko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_6: Which scheduler for SMP? Message-ID: <E1Erhri-000Bgg-P9@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43B2F0A8.2030609@freebsd.org>
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> What I am trying to decide is whether there any point in making the jump > from a very stable RELENG_5 system to RELENG_6. AIUI the ULE scheduler > and it's associated options optimize the use of multiple CPUs and by > staying with 4BSD I'm not getting the best performance from my system. I'm not using ULE either - but I got a 15 percent speedup out of our SMP systems when moving from RELENG_5 to 6.0-RELEASE. Definitely worth doing in my opinion and am now upgrading all the production systems to 6.0 > Can anyone offer any advice on this please? Yes, do it. Its a definite improvement. -pcf.
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