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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:00:21 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "P.U.Kruppa" <ulrich@pukruppa.net>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Experiences with RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <47246BC5.3010900@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071028114924.G1571@small>
References:  <20071027202252.GA40377@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4723CD55.5090307@FreeBSD.org> <20071028000917.GC47576@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4723DB8F.8060407@FreeBSD.org> <20071028060318.W1571@small> <472462F9.7010308@FreeBSD.org> <20071028114924.G1571@small>

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P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>> P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>
>>>> Roland Smith wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:44:21AM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>>>>> Roland Smith wrote:
>>>>>>> Hovewer, sometimes a program seems to hog the CPU for a couple of
>>>>>>> seconds (as seen in top(1))
>>>>>> Can you please explain (with supporting paste of command output) 
>>>>>> what you mean by this?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll save some top output next time. But what happened was this; 
>>>>> all of
>>>>> a sudden the mouse pointer started moving erratically, and the music
>>>>> playing in audacious started skipping. All other X programs started
>>>>> responding erratically as well. It looked like the X server wasn't
>>>>> getting any CPU time.
>>> I can see that happening during portupgrade on my 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 
>>> 7.0-BETA1 #0: Sat Oct 27 04:15:22 CEST 2007 amd64 UP-machine as well. 
>>> Situation has been improved by using
>>> SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD .
>>
>> Yes, so this is a different problem again.  People have reported this 
>> problem with 4BSD, but I don't think it is understood.  Just to 
>> confirm, since we're discussing ULE here do you see this problem with 
>> ULE?
> Yes, but as I said, ULE works better than 4BSD.

OK, so what does "works better" mean?

Kris




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