Performance of 4.x vs 5.x (Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 12:14:35AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2005 23:45, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:42:01PM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote:
> > > I've had PREEMTION enabled in 5-STABLE for at couple of month and had the
> > > opposite experience. Eg. when clicking on a file in a fileselector (I'm
> > > using KDE) it would take 2-3 seconds before the file got highlighted.
> > > After disabling PREEMTION again responsetime seems to have improved.
> > Are you running 5.4-RELEASE or later?
> 
> Later (5.4-STABLE).
> 
> Hmm... did a little testing. Sometimes I *still* get "long" responsetimes with 
> PREEMPTION disabled in a seemingly random order.

This kind of thing is very difficult to diagnose..your system might be
busy doing something else, KDE could be at fault, KDE could be swapped
out, etc.

Kris

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