From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 05:26:28 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 4D30316A504 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from holly.xtaz.co.uk (82-32-29-13.cable.ubr04.azte.blueyonder.co.uk [82.32.29.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F0E44027 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@xtaz.co.uk) Received: from xtaz.co.uk (heather [10.0.0.2]) by holly.xtaz.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305648FC8F; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:26:25 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3F76D370.5010604@xtaz.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:26:24 +0100 From: Matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030919 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Morten Rodal References: <20030927171727.GA68494@hauk10.idi.ntnu.no> <20030927233041.C99666-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> <20030928101535.GA5209@slurp.rodal.no> In-Reply-To: <20030928101535.GA5209@slurp.rodal.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Jeff Roberson cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of SCHED_ULE? 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: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 12:26:28 -0000 Morten Rodal wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > >>On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Morten Rodal wrote: >> >>>It has improved quite a bit lately, and is now also working with KSE. >>>However, the mouse will get sluggish whenever the computer is under >>>bursts of load (i.e. a compile) >>> >> >>I have not had this experience. Can you give me details of your machine >>and the kind of load that causes slugishness? I'll correct it as soon as >>I can identify it. >> > > > The machine is an dual Pentium 2 300MHz, and I'm running gnome 2.4. > I do also experience this with my computer at school, a single Pentium3 > 733MHz. > > The load isn't very complicated, usually just gnome 2.4 and mozilla > firebird running. If I then do anything that requires lots of cpu, > like a compile of a program, the interactivity drops fast. > > On the dual machine I have also experienced a *HUGE* increase in the > time for "portupgrade -ar" to complete. I am not familiar with how > portupgrade works, but it seems to spawn a few make's and sort's, but > I am not sure why it is currently using 3 hours instead of 10 minutes > to complete! (This was tested when there was no packages to upgrade, > which shouldn't take long) > > Both machines (this dual and the one at school) are running with a > libmap.conf in order to use libkse, is this perhaps affecting the > performance of ULE? > > I am not sure how useful this is to you, but if you have any other > pointers as to what I should look at just ask. > Are you running 5.1-release or 5.1-current? I ask because I have used ULE on two different kernels so far on this box. One was 5.1-release running gnome2, mozilla, xmms. On this the mouse stutters really badly whenever anything is being compiled. However on the 5.1-current kernel this behavior no longer happens and the mouse is fine. I suspect ULE has had a few enhancements between the release and now. Matt.