Re: Status of SCHED_ULE?

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_at_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_at_hauk10.idi.ntnu.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/hauk10  i386


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Morten Rodal