From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 16:39:16 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 9502A16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:39:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52DE943D39 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:39:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D8ED512AF; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:39:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 08:39:15 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ion-Mihai Tetcu Message-ID: <20050208163915.GC43054@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200502081333.08964.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <4253.213.222.48.10.1107866717.squirrel@mailgw.icon.bg> <20050208155822.29df9373@it.buh.tecnik93.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="S1BNGpv0yoYahz37" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050208155822.29df9373@it.buh.tecnik93.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: v0rbiz@icon.bg cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ULE status X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 16:39:16 -0000 --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:58:22PM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:45:17 +0200 (EET) > "Viktor Ivanov" wrote: >=20 > > On Tue, ???????? 8, 2005 14:33, Michael Nottebrock ????: > > > On Tuesday, 8. February 2005 13:07, Mipam wrote: > > >> I saw several changes to sched_ule.c in the 5 stable branch. > > >> Beneath is one of them: > > >> > > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2005-February/039863.html > > >> > > >> Is the ULE scheduler still far from stable in RELENG_5 or not? > > > > > > You can now compile a kernel with options SCHED_ULE again. How well it > > > works > > > is for yourself to determine :-) (I've been using it on my UP machine= here > > > since yesterday only). > >=20 > > Hi there > >=20 > > I've been using only SCHED_ULE on my UP WS, even when there was #error > > def. It never broke, not even once :) Though I think there's trouble > > with SMP and/or HTT. I tried it once on a P4 and it paniced. > >=20 > > On the other hand, using SCHED_ULE improves sound quality and general > > system 'response' concerning GUI... don't know 'bout performance. >=20 > By any chance does it help with copying from ata disks on different > controllers ? For me on large files this brings up "swap_pager: > indefinite wait buffer" with 4BSD. That doesn't sound like a scheduler problem, rather a hardware or ata driver problem. Did you try sos' new driver yet? Kris --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCCOsyWry0BWjoQKURAluwAKCr3w/NHl4r30t/nnOdbnE1ID3agwCeIW62 B0ieVryaLSKdUTQaCRblC6k= =sUhy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --S1BNGpv0yoYahz37--