I like SCHED_4BSD

Marc UBM Bocklet ubm at u-boot-man.de
Thu Mar 11 16:42:35 PST 2004


On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:32:35 -0500
"Will Saxon" <WillS at housing.ufl.edu> wrote:

> > I couldn't agree more. After doing the suggested mappings in 
> > libmap.conf 
> > and recompiling apps I can see a drastic difference in load times
> > and performance between ULE and 4BSD. Using ULE the load wait for
> > firefox could be anywhere from 10-30 seconds while with 4BSD it is a
> > constant 4 
> > second load time. When switching between desktops it can take 
> > up to 10 
> > seconds to redraw the screen. This sluggishness isn't exclusive to 
> > firefox, opera and openoffice are noticeably laggy under ULE 
> > as well. I 
> > WANT to like and use ULE but the performance just isn't there.
> 
> I am not experiencing this with firefox. It takes 2-3 seconds to load.
> I am also not experiencing issues with screen redraws. 

Same here, using 5.2.1-RELEASE on a dual 450Mhz P2-Xeon.

Firebird takes about 10 seconds to load and I have no issues with screen
redraws even though I'm using a xinerama configuration with two PCI
cards.

Bye
Marc


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