ULE issue on i386 5.3-STABLE

[Doug Poland]

Hello,

After following the ULE status thread with some interest, I decided to
enable on my i386, hyperthread-enabled, UNP machine.  Perhaps not the
best test bed, but a test none the less.

I'm running a series of make -jX buildworld to put load on the system
and running X with XFCE4 to get an idea of system responsiveness.  

The issue I'm seeing, seconds after launching gnome-terminal,
gnome-terminal terminal completely froze.  I can move and resize the
window, but cannot kill or close it.  A quick look at top shows:


38043 djp       20    0 21040K 16456K RUN    1   0:01  0.00%  0.00% gnome-terminal

Also, gkrellmd and gkrellm have also both froze.  Here's that info:

39481 djp       20    0 16624K 13948K RUN    1   0:02  0.00%  0.00% gkrellm
39321 djp       20    0  4324K  2220K RUN    1   0:00  0.00%  0.00% gkrellmd 

In my kernel, I've added:

options 	SCHED_ULE		# ULE scheduler
options 	SMP				# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
options		PREEMPTION

Is there any info I can provide that would shed some light on this?


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Regards,
Doug,