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Subject: Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7
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Kris Kennaway wrote:

> One major difference is that your workload is 100% user.  Also you were 
> reporting ULE had more idle time, which looks like a bug since I would 
> expect it be basically 0% idle on such a workload.
> 
> Kris
>
We can not ignore this performance bug, also I had found that ULE is
slower than 4BSD when testing super-smack's update benchmark on my
dual-core machine.

Regards,
David Xu