Re: software interrupts & scheduling oddities

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, David Young wrote:

> I'm using the SCHED_M2 scheduler, btw, on a uniprocessor.  SCHED_M2 is
> kind of an arbitrary choice.  I haven't tried SCHED_4BSD, yet, but I
> will.

I'd recommend you try the BSD scheduler.  It may give you better results, 
even though it has a little more overhead.

I don't think the M2 ever worked as well as was hoped.  Solaris eventually 
added an interactive scheduler to solve just these sorts of issues.

Eduardo