From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 19 09:03:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FDEF16A4F2 for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E482B43D6B for ; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 09:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id hBJH2g6T075250; Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:02:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <3FE32F2B.4010808@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:02:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Roberson References: <20031219092634.C36463-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20031219092634.C36463-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ULE Interactivity perf patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 17:03:01 -0000 Jeff Roberson wrote: >I realized a pitfal in the way that I'm doing slice assignment for >interactive tasks. I'd like to have as many people test this as possible, >in case there are unintended consequences. What this patch does is allow >interactive tasks to have longer time-slices so that they may be more >efficient. > >This patch is intended to fix the poor performance of some interactive >processes while under high load, especially high load with other >interactive tasks present. > > "it works" - rebuilt, rebooted, and run some basic tests - looks fine.. Although I haven't noticed anything major in the change yet.. but all seems well.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------