Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Kris Kennaway wrote: > Jeff Roberson wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler deve

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread Nathan Lay
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RE

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread Bengt Ahlgren
"[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>From my perspective scheduling on RELENG_6 was way better. Even on a full > workload like a portupgrade the focused application (both in X and on the > console) always received enough cycles to run smoothly and applications that > ran in background li

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-17 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Bengt Ahlgren wrote: > "[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> From my perspective scheduling on RELENG_6 was way better. Even on a full >> workload like a portupgrade the focused application (both in X and on the >> console) always received enough cycles to run smoothly and applications

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went relativ

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Josh Carroll
> Hi Josh, thanks for the report. How many CPUs are in your system? Can > you give me the output of 'vmstat 5' over the course of one run on 4BSD > and ULE? Or just one of them if you can't spare the time. Hi Jeff, The system has a single quad-core chip, namely an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600. Belo

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: Not to say that any problems that might have developed with SCHED_4BSD should not be fixed, but you should give SCHED_ULE a try since it brings benefits even for single CPU systems (e.g. better interactive response). For my particular work load, 4BSD is

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Josh Carroll
> Not to say that any problems that might have developed with SCHED_4BSD > should not be fixed, but you should give SCHED_ULE a try since it brings > benefits even for single CPU systems (e.g. better interactive response). For my particular work load, 4BSD is actually faster than ULE in RELENG_7.

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > >> Jeff Roberson wrote: >>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I > thought I'd > give my 2¢ in the hope that I might h

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development t

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Josh Carroll wrote: >> Not to say that any problems that might have developed with SCHED_4BSD >> should not be fixed, but you should give SCHED_ULE a try since it brings >> benefits even for single CPU systems (e.g. better interactive response). > > For my particular work load, 4BSD is actually fa

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >>> I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I >>> thought I'd >>> give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the >>> scheduler >>> development to my benefit. >>> >>>

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jeff Roberson wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went relativ

Re: SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went relatively smooth and apart from ipw causing panics.

SCHED_4BSD in RELENG_7 disturbs workflow

2007-10-16 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I know that RELENG_7 is not considered very near-release, but I thought I'd give my 2¢ in the hope that I might have a little influence on the scheduler development to my benefit. The switch from RELENG_6 to RELENG_7 went relatively smooth and apart from ipw causing panics. However there is one th