Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-02 Thread Josh Carroll
> Thank you, that was very useful. I may have something to test very soon. Sounds great Jeff, just say the word when you need someone to do the testing. I'll be glad to help! > What would be interesting to know is if the sum of the temperatures is any > different. 4BSD gets a much more random d

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-02 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: Could you try spot checking a couple of tests with kern.sched.slice set to half its present value? 4BSD on average will use half the slice that ULE will by default. The initial value was 13, and I changed it to 7. Here is the time result for the ffmpeg

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-02 Thread Josh Carroll
> Could you try spot checking a couple of tests with kern.sched.slice set to > half its present value? 4BSD on average will use half the slice that ULE > will by default. The initial value was 13, and I changed it to 7. Here is the time result for the ffmpeg run: 13: 1:39.09 7:1:37.01 I al

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-02 Thread Nick Evans
> This is interesting. I have had a couple of laptop users report success > in using lower power saving modes with ULE. Are these core temp > observations repeatable? > > Thanks, > Jeff > > > > > Thanks again for all your help! Please let me know if/when I can do > > anything else to help out

Re: ULE vs. 4BSD in RELENG_7

2007-11-02 Thread Jeff Roberson
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Josh Carroll wrote: I'm confident that we can improve things. It will probably not make the cut for 7.0 since it will be too disruptive. I'm sure it can be backported before 7.1 when ULE is likely to become the default. That sounds great! I figured it was something that