Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Stanislav Antic
ULE has substantial improvements over BSD for multiprocessor hardware. Does ULE works better on a single CPU machines? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Robert Huff
Stanislav Antic writes: ULE has substantial improvements over BSD for multiprocessor hardware. Does ULE works better on a single CPU machines? I an not an expert; however, based on material reported here: In terms of perforance, ULE and BSD are equivalent on UP

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hi! Thank you for your answer. So, I need to recompile the kernel. Fine! At first I thought there might be a switch somewhere, to do the conversion The soft way, but OK, I'll rebuild the kernel. Daniel I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hi Robert, The expression terrible performances was maybe not the best way to express myself. My intentions were not to step on anyone's toe or being nasty. Sorry about that. To describe things shortly, the problem is responsiveness. I have been running FreeBSD since 4.7 and never experienced

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:48 AM 4/16/2008, Daniel Tourde wrote: Hi Robert, The expression terrible performances was maybe not the best way to express myself. My intentions were not to step on anyone's toe or being nasty. Sorry about that. To describe things shortly, the problem is responsiveness. I have been

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-16 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hi! I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how to do that. The scheduler by default has terrible performances under KDE/Gnome and I would like to test the new one. What made you believe it is the scheduler? I googled and read comments of people having

How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hi! I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how to do that. The scheduler by default has terrible performances under KDE/Gnome and I would like to test the new one. Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Josh Carroll
n Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Daniel Tourde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how to do that. The scheduler by default has terrible performances under KDE/Gnome and I would like to test the new one. See the following

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Robert Huff
Josh Carroll writes: I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how todo that. You will want to use options SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD in your kernel config. Am I correct in remembering SCHED_ULE /is/ the default for 7.0+? If this

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 04:56:37 pm Robert Huff wrote: Josh Carroll writes: I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how todo that. You will want to use options SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD in your kernel config. Am I correct in

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:56:37 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in remembering SCHED_ULE /is/ the default for 7.0+? 4BSD ist the default scheduler of 7.0. ULE will be default for 7.1+. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Ryan Phillips
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Josh Carroll writes: I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how todo that. You will want to use options SCHED_ULE instead of SCHED_4BSD in your kernel config. Am I correct in remembering

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 21:59:46 Daniel Tourde wrote: I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how to do that. The scheduler by default has terrible performances under KDE/Gnome and I would like to test the new one. What made you believe it is the scheduler?

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Josh Carroll
What made you believe it is the scheduler? -- Mel There were some reports of problems with responsiveness with the 4BSD scheduler in 7.0 leading up to its release, so it's certainly a possibility. Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread D Hill
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 at 21:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Hi! I would like to switch scheduler on my FreeBSD 7.0 box but I don't know how to do that. The scheduler by default has terrible performances under KDE/Gnome and I would like to test the new one. In light of your message, I

Re: How to switch scheduler on 7.0?

2008-04-15 Thread Robert Huff
D Hill writes: In light of your message, I was provoked to switched my workstation at work to using the sched_ule thread scheduler. I am running on a dual Pentium III system: duane# grep CPU /var/run/dmesg.boot CPU: Intel Pentium III (999.67-MHz 686-class CPU)