Re: Sched_Ule

From: Jeff Roberson (jroberson_at_chesapeake.net)
Date: 10/09/03

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    Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
    To: Evan Dower <evantd@hotmail.com>
    
    

    On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Evan Dower wrote:

    > I ran with SCHED_ULE for a couple days recently and had trouble beyond just
    > sluggishness. When doing really intensive tasks such as buildworld or
    > installworld, the computer would actually stall. The first time was
    > immediately after booting single user after building the world and kernel. I
    > started and installworld, and it hung there until I did a hard reset.
    > Horrible timing for it, but such is life. Later (after I fixed the damage
    > from the partial install) it hung when doing my buildworld, so I booted up
    > on a different (SCHED_4BSD) kernel to do the buildworld (subsequently
    > switching back to SCHED_4BSD). If you want any particulars about my system
    > just let me know.

    Do you have P4's with hyper threading?

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    >
    > >From: Scott Sipe <css3@duke.edu>
    > >To: current@freebsd.org
    > >Subject: Sched_Ule
    > >Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 00:28:59 -0400 (EDT)
    > >
    > >
    > >Hi,
    > >
    > >I see some posts from late Sept about people having issues with SCHED_ULE.
    > >I just wanted to add in that I am having the exact same problems. In
    > >short:
    > >
    > >Anything that seems disk intensive: bzip2 (unbzip2ing one big file makes
    > >this happen), making world, building ports, etc makes my X environment
    > >practically unusable. Mouse stutters, reaction times is very slow, feels
    > >10x more sluggish than normal. (I'm running KDE if anyone is curious).
    > >
    > >I rebuilt my kernel today (running yesterday's world) with SCHED_4BSD
    > >instead, and things are much better. System is much much more responsive.
    > >
    > >If there's any tests I can run, or anyone I should talk to, I'd love to be
    > >of assistance,
    > >
    > >thanks much,
    > >Scott
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