On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:20 -0700, Unga wrote: > > Sorry for my late reply. > > What I mentioned is a fact, that I always do. Yep, the > music listening is not affected at all when building > world on both 4BSD and ULE. > > Please note my processor is 3Ghz, may be it can take > such a load. > > Second, I run the buildworld lessor priority than the > music player and the browser. > > Third, have sufficient RAM so that it doesn't swap. > > Unga >
Just my 2p worth. I run musicpd, streaming via icecast with 4-5 clients, on a not crazy fast 1.8 GHz Core Duo (*not* Core 2 Duo :), which is also a desktop system and running a number of development web servers in C++, python, ruby. I've only got a GB of RAM, so I am perennially swapping. With SCHED_4BSD, running a make world would result in the music stopping lots. With SCHED_ULE it never skips or pauses, and, with acceptable waits for processes to get swapped back in, the desktop remains very usable. I don't build world with a reduced priority either. ULE is a very, very good scheduler IMHO :) Now, if only I could stop Firefox leaking insane amounts of memory, I wouldn't even need a RAM upgrade :) Tom
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