Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:30:42 +0200 From: Morten Rodal <morten@rodal.no> To: Matt <matt@xtaz.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of SCHED_ULE? Message-ID: <20030928123041.GB5209@slurp.rodal.no> In-Reply-To: <3F76D370.5010604@xtaz.co.uk> References: <20030927171727.GA68494@hauk10.idi.ntnu.no> <20030927233041.C99666-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <20030928101535.GA5209@slurp.rodal.no> <3F76D370.5010604@xtaz.co.uk>
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:26:24PM +0100, Matt wrote: > Morten Rodal wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > >>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Morten Rodal wrote: > >> > >>>It has improved quite a bit lately, and is now also working with KSE. > >>>However, the mouse will get sluggish whenever the computer is under > >>>bursts of load (i.e. a compile) > >>> > >> > >>I have not had this experience. Can you give me details of your machine > >>and the kind of load that causes slugishness? I'll correct it as soon as > >>I can identify it. > >> > > > > > >The machine is an dual Pentium 2 300MHz, and I'm running gnome 2.4. > >I do also experience this with my computer at school, a single Pentium3 > >733MHz. > > > >The load isn't very complicated, usually just gnome 2.4 and mozilla > >firebird running. If I then do anything that requires lots of cpu, > >like a compile of a program, the interactivity drops fast. > > > >On the dual machine I have also experienced a *HUGE* increase in the > >time for "portupgrade -ar" to complete. I am not familiar with how > >portupgrade works, but it seems to spawn a few make's and sort's, but > >I am not sure why it is currently using 3 hours instead of 10 minutes > >to complete! (This was tested when there was no packages to upgrade, > >which shouldn't take long) > > > >Both machines (this dual and the one at school) are running with a > >libmap.conf in order to use libkse, is this perhaps affecting the > >performance of ULE? > > > >I am not sure how useful this is to you, but if you have any other > >pointers as to what I should look at just ask. > > > > Are you running 5.1-release or 5.1-current? > > I ask because I have used ULE on two different kernels so far on this > box. One was 5.1-release running gnome2, mozilla, xmms. On this the > mouse stutters really badly whenever anything is being compiled. > > However on the 5.1-current kernel this behavior no longer happens and > the mouse is fine. > > I suspect ULE has had a few enhancements between the release and now. > I am running 5.1-current Dual machine: FreeBSD slurp.rodal.no 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #3: Thu Sep 25 04:03:23 CEST 2003 root@slurp.rodal.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/slurp i386 School computer: FreeBSD hauk10.idi.ntnu.no 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #2: Fri Sep 26 09:12:55 CEST 2003 root@hauk10.idi.ntnu.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/hauk10 i386 -- Morten Rodal
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