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Date:      Thu, 4 Oct 2007 19:34:48 +0000
From:      "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        "Artem Kuchin" <matrix@itlegion.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Scheduler selection for web hosting
Message-ID:  <bef9a7920710041234i779891afp894941b571d63ed4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <009a01c806bc$5c7021d0$0c00a8c0@Artem>
References:  <009a01c806bc$5c7021d0$0c00a8c0@Artem>

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On 10/4/07, Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have read that in 7-Current there are two schedulers.
> 4BSD - which, AFAIK, is a renamed new SMP scheduler, but i'm not sure
> ULE

According to the scheduler team the only reason why ULE is not the
standard scheduler is it has poor performance on single processor
machines.

>
> 7-current amd64 is actually seems to be VERY stable on hardware and
> software we use, so, we want to move it to production servers and
> want to get max perfomance from it for web hosting.
>
> As, as i know, scheduler is a very important thing when i comes to
> perfomance in havy loaded really multitasking system. We are having
> about 900 processes in about 20 jails.
>
> So, what is the difference between the two? Which seems to be better
> for hosting? Is ULE bugfree and stable enogh for this?

ULE no question given your config... also from here on out I think it
is the only one under active development and a high experimental
version was tested last night and likelly to be further refined that
should really fly on such enviroments.



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