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Date:      Mon, 1 Oct 2007 21:26:39 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, Jeff Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, Ben Kaduk <minimarmot@gmail.com>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_ule.c 
Message-ID:  <20071001205923.U2657@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071001020835.B583@10.0.0.1>
References:  <20070930040318.094E345018@ptavv.es.net> <20070930153430.U583@10.0.0.1> <20071001172620.X1839@besplex.bde.org> <20071001020835.B583@10.0.0.1>

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On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Jeff Roberson wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Bruce Evans wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Jeff Roberson wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> 
>>>> YMMV, but ULE seems to generally work better then 4BSD for interactive
>>>> uniprocessor systems. The preferred scheduler for uniprocessor servers
>>>> is less clear, but many test have shown ULE does better for those
>>>> systems in the majority of cases.
>>> 
>>> I feel it's safe to say desktop behavior on UP is definitely superior.
>> 
>> This is unsafe to say.
>
> Given that the overwhelming amount of feedback by qualified poeple, I think 
> it's fair to say that ULE gives a more responsive system under load.

This is not my experience.  Maybe I don't run enough interactive bloatware
to have a large enough interactive load for the scheduler to make a
difference.

Bruce



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