From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 28 05:38:04 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 6BA0116A4B3 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:38:04 -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 8AA1943FB1 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 05:38:03 -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 8ABA38FCA3; Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:38:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3F76D62A.90509@xtaz.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 13:38:02 +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> <3F76D370.5010604@xtaz.co.uk> <20030928123041.GB5209@slurp.rodal.no> In-Reply-To: <20030928123041.GB5209@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 12:38:04 -0000 Morten Rodal wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:26:24PM +0100, Matt wrote: > >>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. >> > > > I am running 5.1-current > > Dual machine: > FreeBSD slurp.rodal.no 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #3: Thu Sep 25 04:03:23 CEST 2003 root@slurp.rodal.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/slurp i386 > > School computer: > FreeBSD hauk10.idi.ntnu.no 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #2: Fri Sep 26 09:12:55 CEST 2003 root@hauk10.idi.ntnu.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/hauk10 i386 > > Ahh I tell you the other difference. I had a USB mouse when I tried ULE with 5.1-release and it stuttered. It's just a ps2 one on the current kernel where it's not stuttering. Matt.