ULE scheduler and the WCPU column in top

2010-07-22 Thread Nerius Landys
I have this interesting behavior in the top utility on _both_ my 7.1 and 8.0 FreeBSD servers (updated to latest patches). The interesting behavior happens only when my kernel is compiled with the ULE scheduler. It does not happen when the kernel uses the old BSD scheduler. Here is a link of a

Re: ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-23 Thread Ivan Voras
rthreading enabled in the kernel. The question >>> is: is there any appreciable performance difference to be expected >>> with this hardware setup between the ULE scheduler and the 4BSD >>> scheduler? Or does the fact that there is only one core eliminate >>>

Re: ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-23 Thread RW
The question > > is: is there any appreciable performance difference to be expected > > with this hardware setup between the ULE scheduler and the 4BSD > > scheduler? Or does the fact that there is only one core eliminate > > any difference in performance characteristics? >

Re: ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-22 Thread Ivan Voras
xpected with this hardware setup > between the ULE scheduler and the 4BSD scheduler? Or does the fact that > there is only one core eliminate any difference in performance > characteristics? I'd guess the second thing. It's not like there's cache to be shared between cor

ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Bennett
n the ULE scheduler and the 4BSD scheduler? Or does the fact that there is only one core eliminate any difference in performance characteristics? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Int

Re: ULE scheduler

2009-04-10 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:17:28 -0700, "Dave Stegner" wrote: > I rebuilt the kernel with ULE scheduler, I think. > > How can I tell if it is running ULE or 4BSD?? I think that's what you're looking for: % sysctl kern.sched.name kern.sched.name

ULE scheduler

2009-04-10 Thread Dave Stegner
have a stock 7.0 release. I rebuilt the kernel with ULE scheduler, I think. How can I tell if it is running ULE or 4BSD?? David R. Stegner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in few days old RELENG_7 it's great, much better than anything before. there are something to fix with realtime priority threads scheduling, i contacted the author and i think it will be fixed soon. in case of usual work - just use it. it's very good. On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Desmond Chapman wrot

Re: ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Desmond Chapman wrote: Anyone with experience using and setting this up, please contact me. I need to learn how to work with and on it. Replace "options SCHED_4BSD" with "options SCHED_ULE" in your kernel config file, compile/install kernel in the usual way, reboot. End of story. Kris

ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Desmond Chapman
Anyone with experience using and setting this up, please contact me. I need to learn how to work with and on it. _ Get more out of the Web. Learn 10 hidden secrets of Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.s

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
mith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? > > > > > > > > The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless > > > > you're a develop

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread RW
t; > > > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? > > > > > > The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless > > > you're a developer willing to fix some outstanding issues and > > > maybe take active maintainership of it. &g

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:06:57PM +, RW wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 12:18, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? > > &

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 07:32:13PM +0300, John Smith wrote: > On 11/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread perikillo
gt; > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? > > > > The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless > > you're a developer willing to fix some outstanding issues and > > maybe take active maintainership of it. > > > > You can

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? > > The general

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread RW
On Sunday 26 November 2006 12:18, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? > > The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless > you're a

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread John Smith
On 11/26/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless you're a developer willing to fix s

Re: FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 11/26/06, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? The general consensus is you should not touch ULE unless you're a developer willing to fix some outstanding issues and maybe take active maintainership of it. You can try

FreeBSD 6.2: ULE vs 4BSD

2006-11-26 Thread John Smith
Hello, What shall I use as a scheduler on it? 4BSD or ULE? I would like to hear from somone who tested both on FreeBSD 6.2 B to RC1 Thank you, -J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow

2006-05-07 Thread Duane Whitty
Jonathan Horne wrote: i remember when i first started using freebsd about 2 months ago, the first kernel i built, i did the ULE (at some articles recommendataion). but, ive not done it since. i guess i have been noticing a bit of lag on my system (amd 1800mhz 512rdram, u160 scsi raid0), but

Re: ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow

2006-05-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:43:14AM -0300, Duane Whitty wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to give the ULE scheduler a try a while ago (April 28). > when I last built 6-STABLE > > Anyhow it seems great. I'm running a 2.4GHz Celeron with > 512MB RAM and two 40GB, PATA dis

Re: ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow

2006-05-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
i remember when i first started using freebsd about 2 months ago, the first kernel i built, i did the ULE (at some articles recommendataion). but, ive not done it since. i guess i have been noticing a bit of lag on my system (amd 1800mhz 512rdram, u160 scsi raid0), but nothing unacceptable

ULE Scheduler and overall performance on 6.x - Wow

2006-05-07 Thread Duane Whitty
Hi, I decided to give the ULE scheduler a try a while ago (April 28). when I last built 6-STABLE Anyhow it seems great. I'm running a 2.4GHz Celeron with 512MB RAM and two 40GB, PATA disks. Right now I'm running both a GNOME and a KDE session, I've got Thunderbird and Evolutio

Re: CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

2005-11-12 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ian Lord wrote: Are you saying that ULE is slower then 4BSD ? I'm new to this and when I compiled my kernel, it was "clear" ULE was a better alternative for performance then 4BSD Schedulers are one of the hardest things to do right in OS design, as the

Re: CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

2005-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 07:08:12PM -0500, Ian Lord wrote: > Are you saying that ULE is slower then 4BSD ? > > I'm new to this and when I compiled my kernel, it was "clear" ULE was > a better alternative for performance then 4BSD Yes, in the workloads I have tested. O

Re: CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

2005-11-09 Thread Ian Lord
Are you saying that ULE is slower then 4BSD ? I'm new to this and when I compiled my kernel, it was "clear" ULE was a better alternative for performance then 4BSD Thanks At 19:05 2005-11-09, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:16:31PM -0600, Jon Brisbin wrote: >

Re: CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

2005-11-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 04:16:31PM -0600, Jon Brisbin wrote: > I can't find any information on how to set the CPU affinity for processes in > the > FreeBSD 6 ULE scheduler. That's because you can't. ULE gives lower performance on the workloads I have tested anyway.

CPU affinity in new ULE scheduler

2005-11-09 Thread Jon Brisbin
I can't find any information on how to set the CPU affinity for processes in the FreeBSD 6 ULE scheduler. On the linux box, which we're moving from, I have dual Xeon HTT's that I have JBoss scheduled round-robin with the CPU affinity set to the first two processors, nice -15.

Re: ULE or 4BSD

2005-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:42:40PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: > On 11/5/05, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi anybody > > > > All is in the subject...on FreeBSD 6.0 i've see the default generic kernel > > is compiled with SCHED_4BSD and SCHED_ULE is in comment. > > > > Can'I use SCHED_ULE

Re: ULE or 4BSD

2005-11-05 Thread Andrew P.
On 11/5/05, Albert Shih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi anybody > > All is in the subject...on FreeBSD 6.0 i've see the default generic kernel > is compiled with SCHED_4BSD and SCHED_ULE is in comment. > > Can'I use SCHED_ULE on 6.0 ? Is he stable now ? > > Regards. > -- > Albert SHIH > Universite

ULE or 4BSD

2005-11-05 Thread Albert Shih
Hi anybody All is in the subject...on FreeBSD 6.0 i've see the default generic kernel is compiled with SCHED_4BSD and SCHED_ULE is in comment. Can'I use SCHED_ULE on 6.0 ? Is he stable now ? Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local

Re: Which list for ULE issues?

2005-02-16 Thread Simon Barner
Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've been playing with ULE on 5.3-STABLE and have come up with some > repeatable issues. To which list should I post these? -STABLE, > -CURRENT, -QUESTIONS? Since it's on -stable, I'd suggest freebsd-stable@, like last time

Which list for ULE issues?

2005-02-16 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've been playing with ULE on 5.3-STABLE and have come up with some repeatable issues. To which list should I post these? -STABLE, -CURRENT, -QUESTIONS? -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:46:20PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > Peter Farmer schrieb: > > >From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html > > > >(1 Nov 2004) The ULE scheduler described in the release notes has been > >completely disabled to discourage it

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread Phil Schulz
O. Hartmann wrote: Peter Farmer schrieb: From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html (1 Nov 2004) The ULE scheduler described in the release notes has been completely disabled to discourage its use because it has stability problems. HTH Is there a way to explicitely enable it for

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Peter Farmer schrieb: From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/errata.html (1 Nov 2004) The ULE scheduler described in the release notes has been completely disabled to discourage its use because it has stability problems. HTH Is there a way to explicitely enable it for testing purposes

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:50:21PM +0600, musikcom wrote: > Hello! > I have some trouble with ULE scheduler. I have installed > FreeBSD 5.3 When I try to use ULE scheduler (by editing > GENERIC file), the message "The SCHED_ULE scheduler is > broken. Please use SCHED_4BSD&q

Re: Trouble with ULE scheduler

2004-12-17 Thread Alan Gerber
musikcom wrote: Hello! I have some trouble with ULE scheduler. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 When I try to use ULE scheduler (by editing GENERIC file), the message "The SCHED_ULE scheduler is broken. Please use SCHED_4BSD" message appear. I do these steps: cd /sys/i386/confOK ed

Re: about ULE and KSE

2004-09-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 04:45:02PM +0800, wrote: > so what is the difference between 2?i think , ule is not so good as > they told me ,so slow. One's a scheduler, one's a thread system. Apples, oranges. Kris pgpNLJ2OnQq6a.pgp Description: PGP signature

about ULE and KSE

2004-09-30 Thread 王兵
so what is the difference between 2?i think , ule is not so good as they told me ,so slow. == 263电子邮件-信赖邮自专业___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send