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Subject: Re: Unhappy with recent make(1) changes
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Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> writes:
> Try disabling HTT and seeing how that changes the results.   Without a
> good scheduler, HTT is a pessimization on CPU-intensive tasks like this.
> It's quite possible that the mandatory delay that happened in the old
> make(1) actually helped the HTT case a bit.  When I tested DES's change,
> I turned off HTT in order to not be influenced by it.  Maybe switching to
> ULE (which is HTT-aware, in theory) would help?

The machine on which I tested the patch before committing it is a P4
with HTT enabled, and I'm using SCHED_4BSD, so that shouldn't be an
issue.

DES
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