From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 23 0:44:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46ECC155D5 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:44:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11IomR-000C7r-00; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:44:35 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Doug Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, dbaker@distributed.net Subject: Re: Weird differences in rc5 behavior on -current vs. -stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:11:33 MST." <37BF5C55.519542EF@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:44:35 +0200 Message-ID: <46614.935394275@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:11:33 MST, Doug wrote: > I have a 3.2-Stable and a 4.0-Current system at home, both > running rc5des. On both systems I set the priority in the rc5 options > menu to '0', indicating lowest possible priority. On the -Stable > system it's running at nice level '0', but it seems to be taking > advantage of the idprio stuff since in general my system seems much > "snappier," than when I was running 2.2.8 on the exact same machine. I think you'll find PR 12381 explains these results quite well. The fix bde applied to CURRENT and backported to STABLE were not backported to RELENG_2_2. If you look at the difference between RELENG_2_2 and RELENG_3, I think you'll see why. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message