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Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2005 10:53:39 +0200
From:      Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which SCHED_ for DB server
Message-ID:  <b41c7552050901015317d5942e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4316A5BC.1000405@meijome.net>
References:  <4316A5BC.1000405@meijome.net>

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> I'm building a server that will run PostgreSQL with a database
> containing several 10s of million records. The only things happening on
> this box will be the SQL processes and other processes to parse raw data
> and load into the DB. Users =3D a few connections via HTTP from an
> intranet server (not more than 5 concurrently).
>=20
> I was wondering what is the best SCHED_ to set in the kernel.
> I currently have SCHED_4BSD but was wondering if _ULE would be better
> for this

For prod. use I would recommend SCHED_4BSD atm. The 4BSD-scheduler
does seem to be more stable on SMP and up.

regards
Claus



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