Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 23:05:16 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ULE and current. Message-ID: <20031210230336.K4201-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <20031210134619.GA2552@kevad.internal>
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:30:13AM -0500, Jeff Roberson > <jroberson@chesapeake.net> wrote: > > > The plan is to leave ULE as the default until we get to 5.3 at which point > > we will decide whether or not it is production quality. The most > > untest workload that I know of is on massive multiuser systems with lots > > of interactive tasks. If anyone has such a system, I would love to hear > > of feedback while running ULE. For anyone else, if your workload is > > either improved or hindered, I'd appreciate a mail with the a description > > of your workload, your hardware, behavior with ULE, and behavior with > > 4BSD. > > I have one noticeable annoyance with ULE while setiathome is > running. It takes sometimes a second or two more to open mailbox > (maildir format) with several hundreds of messages. If setiathome is > stopped it will not happen, the mailbox will be opened instantly. > The system is dual PIII-500, sources and kernel from Nov 27, two > setiathome processes running at nice 20. Thanks, this sounds bad. We must be marking your mail program as non-interactive while it's starting up. What is the program? Oh, and on a dual system? This is most suspicious. Do you have any other tasks running at the same time? This looks more like the long term balancer has a problem as well. I actually just made some changes there. Can you update your sources as well? Thanks for the report! Jeff > -- > Vallo Kallaste > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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