SCHED_ULE on desktop system

vehemens vehemens at verizon.net
Sun Sep 16 00:59:19 PDT 2007


On Saturday 15 September 2007 11:19:32 pm Roman Bogorodskiy wrote:
>I'm curious if SCHED_ULE is designed to be used on a desktop system. I'm
>running -CURRENT at home and tried to use SCHED_ULE for some time. It
>works alright while the load is not very high. But once I start
>compiling something (running 'make buildworld' or 'portupgrade -a' for
>example), the machine comes almost unusable - X11's windows takes a lot
>of time to redraw, changing virtual desktop in window manager may take
>a several seconds. And it's nearly impossible to watch some movie with
>mplayer.

I also see something similar running -CURRENT with SCHED_4BSD, but it shows up 
with X/gnome.  Remote logins are still responsive and running X/twm works 
fine.



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