Re: Status of SCHED_ULE?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:04:49AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, 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?
> 
> It could be.  Can you try with libthr or libc_r and let me know?
> 

I tried converting to libthr at school and started a "portupgrade -ar".
(Of course I had restarted all the applications that uses threads)

There was no difference in the interactivity, but I came to think of
one other thing.  I use the /dev/sysmouse and moused, not quite sure
why but that's how I've always used my mouse (PS2 or USB) with
FreeBSD.  Could this have something to do with the mouse feeling
sloppy?

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Morten Rodal