7B4 scheduling question

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 30 08:10:20 PST 2007


Jonathan Horne wrote:
> On Sunday 30 December 2007 05:27:15 am Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Yes, ULE is the recommended scheduler.
> 
> out of curiosity, if the ULE is becoming the standard, then why does the 
> GENERIC config still have the 4BSD as the default?

Release engineers wanted to be conservative in case of problems.  It 
will change post-release.

> im curious to know, since im rebuilding a badly-behaving 7.0-RC1 box that was 
> locking up under the loads of building kernel.  (installed at BETA4, now 
> building up to RC1 as i type...)

Sounds likely to be hardware failure, absent other evidence.

Kris


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