From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 27 20:42:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABB9216A420 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:42:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4771313C491 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:42:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9RKMqS9034616 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:22:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 782FCB8F8; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:22:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:22:52 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071027202252.GA40377@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Subject: Experiences with RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:42:42 -0000 --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On the 25th I bit the bullet and csup-ed my source tree to RELENG_7. The update of the base system and kernel went relatively well, although I had to make some small changes to my kernel config. I'm using the SCHED_ULE scheduler at the moment. My machine is a UP athlon64. Rebuilding my ports with portmaster didn't really work. Apparently there ware some mixed-up dependencies. I ended up nuking all ports and reinstalling them from scratch, which went without problems. Generally, I'm, pleased with the improvements. Playing music with Audacious goes much smoother; less hickups than on 6-STABLE. Interactivity generally feels very good. Hovewer, sometimes a program seems to hog the CPU for a couple of seconds (as seen in top(1)), and interactivity suffers tremendously. Could this be the scheduler getting mixed up? This happened two times with graphics/telak, which I use to put update some graphs on my desktop every minute. In both cases I killed the program. But it also happened one time with cc1 during compilation of a program. Would it be worthwhile to play with kern.sched.interact or kern.sched.slice in this case? Or should I re-csup? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHI54cEnfvsMMhpyURAhOXAJwJ4myo7bmFgHZgM0rzTCAwMcGNngCdGSGe PPT67U5UmrNzymYdx3JDtA8= =nTfa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GvXjxJ+pjyke8COw--