On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, David Young wrote: > I'm using the SCHED_M2 scheduler, btw, on a uniprocessor. SCHED_M2 is > kind of an arbitrary choice. I haven't tried SCHED_4BSD, yet, but I > will.
I'd recommend you try the BSD scheduler. It may give you better results, even though it has a little more overhead. I don't think the M2 ever worked as well as was hoped. Solaris eventually added an interactive scheduler to solve just these sorts of issues. Eduardo