Re: Status of SCHED_ULE?

From: Matt <matt_at_xtaz.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:38:02 +0100
Morten Rodal wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Ahh I tell you the other difference. I had a USB mouse when I tried ULE 
with 5.1-release and it stuttered. It's just a ps2 one on the current 
kernel where it's not stuttering.

Matt.
Received on Sun Sep 28 2003 - 03:38:04 UTC

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