19.04.2018 0:59, Peter wrote: > thank You very much for Your commenting and reports! > > From what I see, we have (at least) two rather different demands here: > while George looks at the over-all speed of compute throughput, others are > concerned about interactive response. > > My own issue is again a little bit different: I am running this small > single-CPU machine as my home-office router, and it also runs a backup > service, which involves compressing big files and handling an outgrown > database (but that does not need to happen fast, as it's just backup stuff). > So, my demand is to maintain a good balance between realtime network activity > being immediately served, and low-priority batch compute jobs, while still > staying responsive to shell-commands - but the over-all compute throughput is > not important here. > > But then, I find it very difficult to devise some metrics, by which such a > demand could be properly measured, to get compareable figures.
I run similar system (AMD Geode 500Mhz i386-compatible) and found that SCHED_4BSD does it just fine without any additional non-default configuration: no other kernel options (*PREEMPT*), no loader.conf/sysctl.conf tuning. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"