Re: I like SCHED_4BSD

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:06:05 -0800
Ryan Freeman <ryan_at_slipgate.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:09:48 -0500
> Scott Sipe <cscotts_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> > Julian Stecklina wrote:
> > > "Will Saxon" <WillS_at_housing.ufl.edu> writes:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>I am not experiencing this with firefox. It takes 2-3 seconds to
> > >load. >I am also not experiencing issues with screen redraws. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > How did you get firefox to load that fast? It takes about 15
> > > seconds on my 1GHz laptop.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > 
> > FWIW, I have a 1GHz athlon laptop w/ 256mb ram, running CURRENT from
> > about Mar 6, using SCHED_ULE, no libmap.conf.  I just installed
> > Firefox from the binary package (firefox-0.8_4.tbz) which I got off
> > FreeBSD ftp. Firefox starts in about 2.5 seconds for me too.
> > 
> 
> well, i have a 1.2ghz duron, 384mb ram and a 4.3gb fujitsu harddrive
> running with UDMA66 and a 20gb maxtor drive with UDMA100. curiously,
> firefox takes about 10-12 seconds to load. (earlier today it took 20+
> seconds and i was quite shocked). HOWEVER, i ran mozilla 1.6-something
> and it took only 3-4 seconds to load! the only excuse i can see for
> this is that i compiled firefox on release-5.2 and mozilla after
> release-5.2.1(only because of that damn mplayerplug-in, too :/) also
> when i compiled firefox i didn't have CPUTYPE=athlon set in
> /etc/make.conf, it was compiling with the default pentiumpro it seems.
> could that really affect load times that much? 
> 

oops i forgot to mention that i use the SCHED_4BSD scheduler

> - ryan
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