Scheduler weirdness

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 05:59:52PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 
> Ok, running RELENG_8 from Friday (10/9/2009).
> 
> If I have 4 Folding-at-home processes running (they nice themselves) the
> system is slow as a dog.
> 
> If I stop them, it's speedy.
> 
> This is running SCHED_ULE
> 
> is this expected?
> 
> What can I do to help?
> 

How many cpus are available on your system?  If you're in an
over-commit situation with numerical intensive applications,
you may find 4BSD to be a better option.

-- 
Steve