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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:39:52 -0400
From:      "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        "Nick Evans" <nevans@talkpoint.com>
Cc:        remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Subject:   Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0710240839h1a59f9f9y919e6b297c3efb8e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071024113434.326c3749@pleiades.nextvenue.com>
References:  <8cb6106e0710230902x4edf2c8eu2d912d5de1f5d4a2@mail.gmail.com> <471E343C.2040509@FreeBSD.org> <20071024171915.E84143@delplex.bde.org> <8cb6106e0710240639r20e03ce9w81ed3354338b7395@mail.gmail.com> <20071024113434.326c3749@pleiades.nextvenue.com>

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> kern.sched.steal_thresh is/was one of the more effective tuning sysctls. rev
> 1.205 of sched_ule had a change that was supposed to automatically adjust it
> based on the number of cores. Is this the same 8 core system as the
> other thread? In that case the commit dictates steal_thresh should be set to
> 3. Give that a try.

This is a quad core (single cpu) system. Do these values look proper then?

kern.sched.steal_thresh: 2
kern.sched.steal_idle: 1
kern.sched.steal_htt: 1

Thanks,
Josh



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