> Yes, that's the proper default. You could try setting steal_thresh to 1. I > noticed a problem with building ports on an 8 core Xeon system while 8 > distributed.net crunchers were running. The port build would proceed > incredibly slowly, steal_thresh=1 helped a little bit. It might not make up > the 5% gap you're seeing though. During early ULE2/3 testing the other > variables Jeff recommended trying were sched.pick_pri (which I never saw > effect from), sched_tryself and sched.balance. They're all bools IIRC. Since > this workload is a bit different from any of mine it would be worthwhile to > try those variables.
Thanks for the information. Setting sched_tryself to 0 improved things slightly. sched.balance didn't seem to help. I'm trying to increase/decrease the balance_interval to see if that helps. Josh _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"