From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 04:31:03 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 4672C16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anduin.net (anduin.net [212.12.46.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2AA643FB1 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 04:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: (qmail 64486 invoked by uid 85); 15 Oct 2003 11:31:01 -0000 Received: from ltning@anduin.net by anduin.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (clamscan: 0.60. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.19235 secs); 15 Oct 2003 11:31:01 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ltning@anduin.net via anduin.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20rc1 (Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.19235 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO anduin.net) (213.238.32.66) by anduin.net with SMTP; 15 Oct 2003 11:31:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3F8D2FD9.70606@anduin.net> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 13:30:33 +0200 From: Eirik Oeverby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Roberson , current@freebsd.org References: <20031015034832.E30029-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20031015034832.E30029-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: More ULE bugs fixed. 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: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 11:31:03 -0000 Jeff Roberson wrote: > I fixed two bugs that were exposed due to more of the kernel running > outside of Giant. ULE had some issues with priority propagation that > stopped it from working very well. > > Things should be much improved. Feedback, as always, is welcome. I'd > like to look into making this the default scheduler for 5.2 if things > start looking up. I hope that scares you all into using it more. :-) Hi.. Just tested, so far it seems good. System CPU load is floored (near 0), system is very responsive, no mouse sluggishness or random mouse/keyboard input. Doing a make -j 20 buildworld now (on my 1ghz p3 thinkpad ;), and running some SQLServer stuff in VMWare. We'll see how it fares. Thanks, /Eirik