From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 23 22:24:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 952E7106564A for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:24:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from george@m5p.com) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (unknown [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668748FC1A for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:24:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (wonderland.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::19]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2NMO6wO061323 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:24:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from george@m5p.com) Message-ID: <4D8A7305.5010805@m5p.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:24:05 -0400 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110215 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4D8A61FC.3050303@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7]); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:24:11 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:24:12 -0000 On 03/23/11 17:57, Matthias Gamsjager wrote: > Have you tried 8 stable? The box I tried SCHED_4BSD on was running 8.2_PRERELEASE, which still had the problem described. Has the scheduler changed significantly between 8.2_PRERELEASE and stable? -- George Mitchell > On 23 Mar 2011 22:12, "George Mitchell" wrote: >> Original message, from ten months ago: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031915.html >> >> Briefly, running the distributed.net client on my FreeBSD 8.0 box >> made Firefox take forever to start up (90 seconds vs. 2 seconds). >> The distributed.net client is essentially 100% CPU bound, with >> occasional file I/O and even more occasional socket I/O, running >> at nice 20. The problem has persisted since then. >> >> So I finally compiled up a kernel using SCHED_4BSD instead of >> SCHED_ULE. Problem fixed. >> >> It still doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling about FreeBSD 8.0, >> since I still have the awful NFS client performance problem (though >> not as bad as before the Rick Macklem patch). -- George Mitchell >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"