Re: did something change in SMP scheduling from 5.4 to 6.0?

2006-01-30 Thread Randy Schultz
Tnx for the response. On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Lowell Gilbert spaketh thusly: -} -}What was the actual workload at that point? It looks like there's Not much actually. ~.3 or .4. -}only one runnable process, and it's running, so there is no reason to -}care which processor it's on. Yeah that's

Re: did something change in SMP scheduling from 5.4 to 6.0?

2006-01-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious if something changed in the way extra cpus are utilized in 6.0 > vs. 5.4 in a SMP kernel. Quite a lot, actually. > My system is a dual-proc Xeon box. When I was using 5.4 top would show > both procs being used roughly the same, e.g. the "

did something change in SMP scheduling from 5.4 to 6.0?

2006-01-26 Thread Randy Schultz
Hey all, I am curious if something changed in the way extra cpus are utilized in 6.0 vs. 5.4 in a SMP kernel. My system is a dual-proc Xeon box. When I was using 5.4 top would show both procs being used roughly the same, e.g. the "C" column usually had almost as many processes running on the sec