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Date:      Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:46:26 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Some comments on ZFS
Message-ID:  <200704161146.l3GBkQQi047570@peedub.jennejohn.org>

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I wrote:
> With the old setup I saw:
> a) ``make -j2 buildworld'' usually pegged the CPU at 97%.
>
[snip]
> With the new setup:
> a) ``make -j2 buildworld'' only reaches about 70% CPU load. Is ZFS stealing
>    so much CPU?
>

This turned out to be a problem with SCHED_ULE. I was seeing cpu0 80% idle
almost all the time. After switching to SCHED_4BSD I see both CPUs used
to within about 5% of each other. SCHED_4BSD tends to use cpu1 more than
cpu0. SCED_ULE exhibited the same behavior, but more dramatically.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn / garyjATjennejohnDOTorg gjATfreebsdDOTorg garyjATdenxDOTde




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