> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:36:23 +0100 > From: Godwin Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:49:00 +0100, Michael Nottebrock > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been using that for a long time now, since Xorg 6.8.1 breaks vt- > > switching for me. > > Well, I decided to bite the bullet and upgraded to Xorg 6.8.1 anyway. It > didn't break vt-switching for me, thankfully. Other than the core keyboard > driver being "kbd" instead of "Keyboard" now, which threw me off for a > couple of minutes, all went well. It seems to be stable enough. Cross > fingers, touch wood etc. > > I also took advantage of the latest cvsup to 5.4-PRE and ensuing recompile > to revert to SCHED_4BSD from SCHED_ULE and PREEMPTION in the kernel. The > difference is staggering. > > One of the things I've been doing is to record some of my old cassettes > (you know, those old plastic things with 2 holes and a tape inside :) onto > CD. Applying a FFT filter to 50 minutes of audio takes between 10 and 15 > minutes on this machine (P-III/550, 384MB) depending on the complexity of > the filter. During this time, with SCHED_ULE and PREEMTION, the machine is > unusable. It freezes hard for periods of 10-12 seconds and then when it > unfreezes (while doing disk i/o apparently) the keys you typed turn up in > the wrong order. > > However, now that I've reverted to SCHED_4BSD, the machine remains > perfectly snappy while performing the FFT filter, which doesn't happen > perceptibly slower. > > It could be that I misread things entirely (wouldn't be the first time), > but wasn't SCHED_ULE's purpose to *improve* the responsiveness of the > machine when under load? The results I'm getting here are, errmm... > slightly different... Old hardware maybe?
This is VERY odd. What you saw with ULE is what I (and most people) saw with 4BSD. I got very tired of the short pauses I was getting unde 4BSD on my 5-Stable laptop and was very pleased to get back to ULE a few weeks ago when I moved it to 6-Current. I'd say something is very wrong on your systems and I'd ALMOST bet it's ata related. Maybe ATA-MkIII would help things out. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
