From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 7 15:41:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F43D16A404 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 15:41:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) Received: from zeus.int.dfwlp.com (zeus.dfwlp.com [208.11.134.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0128943D5D for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 15:41:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) Received: from hera.int.dfwlp.com (hera.int.dfwlp.com [192.168.125.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by zeus.int.dfwlp.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k47FfSSq079422 for ; Sun, 7 May 2006 10:41:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jhorne@dfwlp.com) From: Jonathan Horne To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 10:41:28 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <445DC132.7060405@greenmeadow.ca> In-Reply-To: <445DC132.7060405@greenmeadow.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605071041.28391.jhorne@dfwlp.com> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on zeus.int.dfwlp.com Subject: Re: ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 15:41:34 -0000 i remember when i first started using freebsd about 2 months ago, the first kernel i built, i did the ULE (at some articles recommendataion). but, ive not done it since. i guess i have been noticing a bit of lag on my system (amd 1800mhz 512rdram, u160 scsi raid0), but nothing unacceptable. however, since i didnt have a problem with my first kernel that i did, and your positive response, i decided to go ahead and change out the specified scheduler in my kernconf, and let 'er rip. is your system a desktop? were your prevously running the same desktop configuration on the same box, with the 4BSD? is the ULE scheduler suited for a server setup as well (my server is also SMP), or is this something that should be kept to a desktop? thanks, jonathan horne On Sunday 07 May 2006 04:43, Duane Whitty wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to give the ULE scheduler a try a while ago (April 28). > when I last built 6-STABLE > > Anyhow it seems great. I'm running a 2.4GHz Celeron with > 512MB RAM and two 40GB, PATA disks. Right now I'm running > both a GNOME and a KDE session, I've got Thunderbird and > Evolution open, Firefox is running and running well, and I'm > updating the my local copy of the FreeBSD repository. Oh yeah, > I'm also running a DNS server, a Sendmail server, and SAMBA > I can't believe how responsive everything is on this low-end machine > I'm running. Wow! (And this with debugging turned on but no WITNESS > or INVARIANTS turned on) > > Well time to rebuild the sources :) > > dwpc@ /home/duane>uname -a > FreeBSD dwpc.dwlabs.ca 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Fri Apr 28 18:41:15 ADT > 2006 duane@dwpc.dwlabs.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DWPC-KERNEL i386 > > Best Regards, > > Duane Whitty