my experience with the SCHED_ULE

[Peter Schultz]

Nuno Teixeira wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 09:09:13PM +0800, Dung Patrick wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>My PC is an PIII SMP. I have been using the SCHED_4BSD (with ADAPTIVE_MUTEX) with 5-Current for some time. Now I have tried the SCHED_ULE (with ADAPTIVE_MUTEX).
>>
>>I have tried some real world applications like Mozilla, xmms, and run inside KDE. The performance is about the same with SCHED_4BSD. But I could notice a little bit slow down/delay when I switch to another process. For example: use the mouse to press the menu bar of konsole and drag it. I could see a small delay before the window moves.
>>
>>Finally, I would appreicate all the developers for their time and effort on freebsd.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Patrick
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> A few days ago I tried too SCHED_ULE sheduler and the first thing that I
> noticed is that when I run my PII 300 at high load (cvs, compiling
> programs, mozilla, etc) my mouse fails a lot its precision. I recompile
> the same kernel with old sheduler and it fixed mouse problem.
> 
> Bye,
> 
> 		Nuno Teixeira
> 

I have been using ULE since it was introduced and have noticed a 
performance increase over the past week or so.  This is on a dual PII 
350 configuration.

Pete...