From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 06:37:16 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E291C16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:37:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lazir.toya.net.pl (lazir.toya.net.pl [217.113.224.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3D243D4C for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:37:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imachine@toya.net.pl) Received: from localhost (unknown [192.168.120.26]) by lazir.toya.net.pl (TOYAnet MailServer) with ESMTP id 525CF8BF9E for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from lazir.toya.net.pl ([192.168.120.25]) by localhost (agregat [192.168.120.26]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09404-02 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:10 +0100 (CET) Received: from [85.89.161.206] (unknown [85.89.161.206]) by lazir.toya.net.pl (TOYAnet MailServer) with ESMTP id 0D08B8BFB6 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4222BC17.5030406@toya.net.pl> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 07:37:11 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?TWF0ZXVzeiBKw6pkcmFzaWs=?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050227) X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> <200502262225.24444.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050226130509.39e109e9.gstewart@bonivet.net> <200502262149.06501.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <20050227213623.682e51d8.gstewart@bonivet.net> In-Reply-To: <20050227213623.682e51d8.gstewart@bonivet.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TOYA-AV: AntyVir-Skaner at toya.net.pl Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.1 and SCHED_ULE vs. SCHED_4BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: imachine@toya.net.pl List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:37:17 -0000 Godwin Stewart napisał(a): > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:49:00 +0100, Michael Nottebrock > wrote: > > >>>I've been using that for a long time now, since Xorg 6.8.1 breaks vt- >>>switching for me. > > One of the things I've been doing is to record some of my old cassettes > (you know, those old plastic things with 2 holes and a tape inside :) onto > CD. Applying a FFT filter to 50 minutes of audio takes between 10 and 15 > minutes on this machine (P-III/550, 384MB) depending on the complexity of > the filter. During this time, with SCHED_ULE and PREEMTION, the machine is > unusable. It freezes hard for periods of 10-12 seconds and then when it > unfreezes (while doing disk i/o apparently) the keys you typed turn up in > the wrong order. I currently run 5.4-PRE with ULE and PREEMPTION, on a similar machine (pIII-733 192RAM), also 6.8.1, and i do have to say that ULE has improved responsiveness /alongside kern.hz=800/ incredibly, with none-whatsoever speed degradation (actually my compilations seem to run faster, although that is only a mere hunch not yet backed up by any benchmarking). The only time i might encounter problems, is with the lack of ram, and a lot of disk swap usage, or during untarring of big distfiles (yet it is still giving me better response than with 4BSD, which was utterly terrible :) I honestly would have to say, great job on the ULE, if mere fixing of the possible disk i/o lock ups were to be commited its much better than 4BSD. > > However, now that I've reverted to SCHED_4BSD, the machine remains > perfectly snappy while performing the FFT filter, which doesn't happen > perceptibly slower. Perhaphs you can try with different kern.hz settings? -- Mateusz Jędrasik < imachine@toya.net.pl >