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Date:      Tue, 6 Sep 2005 04:22:30 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Which SCHED_ for DB server
Message-ID:  <20050906082229.GA27104@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <431D4944.9020907@mail.uni-mainz.de>
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On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 09:46:12AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> >On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:53:39AM +0200, Claus Guttesen wrote:
> >=20
> >
> >>>I'm building a server that will run PostgreSQL with a database
> >>>containing several 10s of million records. The only things happening on
> >>>this box will be the SQL processes and other processes to parse raw da=
ta
> >>>and load into the DB. Users =3D a few connections via HTTP from an
> >>>intranet server (not more than 5 concurrently).
> >>>
> >>>I was wondering what is the best SCHED_ to set in the kernel.
> >>>I currently have SCHED_4BSD but was wondering if _ULE would be better
> >>>for this
> >>>    =20
> >>>
> >>For prod. use I would recommend SCHED_4BSD atm. The 4BSD-scheduler
> >>does seem to be more stable on SMP and up.
> >>  =20
> >>
> >
> >ULE might be OK on SMP with 6.0 and above, but performance seems to be
> >a bit lower than 4BSD in my tests.  Try it yourself and see which is
> >better.
> >
> >Kris
> >=20
> >
> Interesting.
> An, by the way, what are the benefits of ULE at this moment? Is it still=
=20
> a more experimental scheduler for the far future on SMP based machines=20
> or do we have benefits in UP/SMP?

It was supposed to provide higher performance (and did for a while,
modulo panics), but at the moment it still needs work.

Kris

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