Original message, from ten months ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031915.html Briefly, running the distributed.net client on my FreeBSD 8.0 box made Firefox take forever to start up (90 seconds vs. 2 seconds). The distributed.net client is essentially 100% CPU bound, with occasional file I/O and even more occasional socket I/O, running at nice 20. The problem has persisted since then. So I finally compiled up a kernel using SCHED_4BSD instead of SCHED_ULE. Problem fixed. It still doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling about FreeBSD 8.0, since I still have the awful NFS client performance problem (though not as bad as before the Rick Macklem patch). -- George Mitchell
Matthias Gamsjager
2011-Mar-23 22:20 UTC
Firefox startup impacted by distributed.net client
Have you tried 8 stable? On 23 Mar 2011 22:12, "George Mitchell" <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote:> Original message, from ten months ago: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2010-May/031915.html > > Briefly, running the distributed.net client on my FreeBSD 8.0 box > made Firefox take forever to start up (90 seconds vs. 2 seconds). > The distributed.net client is essentially 100% CPU bound, with > occasional file I/O and even more occasional socket I/O, running > at nice 20. The problem has persisted since then. > > So I finally compiled up a kernel using SCHED_4BSD instead of > SCHED_ULE. Problem fixed. > > It still doesn't give me a warm, fuzzy feeling about FreeBSD 8.0, > since I still have the awful NFS client performance problem (though > not as bad as before the Rick Macklem patch). -- George Mitchell > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"