From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 14:32:13 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F3216A417 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:32:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222F013C45A for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 14:32:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l96EVhQr083924; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:31:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l96EVhtC082426; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:31:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l96EVgXp082425; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:31:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 16:31:41 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20071006143141.GD976@gothic.blackend.org> References: <20071002165007.D587@10.0.0.1> <20071006074429.GB976@gothic.blackend.org> <20071006102113.GC976@gothic.blackend.org> <47077951.5030906@clearchain.com> <4707866F.7030605@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4707866F.7030605@FreeBSD.org> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: Jeff Roberson , Benjamin Close , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ULE/yielding patch for testing. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:32:13 -0000 On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:58:23PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Benjamin Close wrote: >>> >>> After more testing, the lag problem is caused by the use of firefox. >>> Once I try to open a heavy webpage, both firefox and Xorg become slow, >>> the rest is fine. By the "rest" I mean: audacious playing mp3s, wget and >>> ncftp downloading huge (100MB) files, compiling wine and aMule running. >>> >> I find the lag occuring with the 4BSD scheduler as well. dailytech.com is >> a particularly good site at lagging the system (though a great website). >> Perhaps this isn't scheduler related? > I don't think its scheduler related, last Jeff's changes helped a bit the things with ULE but I also noticed the lag with 4BSD. > I assume you checked whether you are touching swap. > In my case, the swap is never used: Mem: 272M Active, 354M Inact, 157M Wired, 28M Cache, 110M Buf, 178M Free Swap: 2023M Total, 2023M Free -- Marc