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Date:      Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:31:41 +0200
From:      Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ULE/yielding patch for testing.
Message-ID:  <20071006143141.GD976@gothic.blackend.org>
In-Reply-To: <4707866F.7030605@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20071002165007.D587@10.0.0.1> <20071006074429.GB976@gothic.blackend.org> <20071006102113.GC976@gothic.blackend.org> <47077951.5030906@clearchain.com> <4707866F.7030605@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:58:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> Benjamin Close wrote:
>>> 
>>> After more testing, the lag problem is caused by the use of firefox.
>>> Once I try to open a heavy webpage, both firefox and Xorg become slow,
>>> the rest is fine.  By the "rest" I mean: audacious playing mp3s, wget and
>>> ncftp downloading huge (100MB) files, compiling wine and aMule running.
>>>   
>> I find the lag occuring with the 4BSD scheduler as well. dailytech.com is 
>> a particularly good site at lagging the system (though a great website).
>> Perhaps this isn't scheduler related?
> 

I don't think its scheduler related, last Jeff's changes helped a bit
the things with ULE but I also noticed the lag with 4BSD.

> I assume you checked whether you are touching swap.
>

In my case, the swap is never used:

Mem: 272M Active, 354M Inact, 157M Wired, 28M Cache, 110M Buf, 178M Free
Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free

-- 
Marc



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