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Date:      Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:46:01 +0200
From:      Ivan Klymenko <fidaj@ukr.net>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: SCHED_ULE should not be the default
Message-ID:  <20111219194601.6d0285c7@nonamehost.>
In-Reply-To: <4EED05EC.8050103@FreeBSD.org>
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=D0=92 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:13:16 +0200
Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> =D0=BF=D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82:

> on 17/12/2011 19:33 George Mitchell said the following:
> > Summing up for the record, in my original test:
> > 1. It doesn't matter whether X is running or not.
> > 2. The problem is not limited to two or fewer CPUs.  (It also
> > happens for me on a six-CPU system.)
> > 3. It doesn't require nCPU + 1 compute-bound processes, just nCPU.
> >=20
> > With nCPU compute-bound processes running, with SCHED_ULE, any other
> > process that is interactive (which to me means frequently waiting
> > for I/O) gets ABYSMAL performance -- over an order of magnitude
> > worse than it gets with SCHED_4BSD under the same conditions.
>=20
> I definitely do not see anything like this.
> Specifically:
> - with X
> - with 2 CPUs
> - with nCPU and/or nCPU + 1 compute-bound processes
> - with SCHED_ULE obviously :-)
> I do not get "abysmal" performance for I/O active tasks.
>=20
> Perhaps there is something specific that you would want me to run and
> measure.
>=20

Well, share your experiences - what to do, what would the others were
fine with SCHED_ULE. ;)



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