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ULE Now The Default Scheduler On FreeBSD

Posted by timothy on from the ule-stole-my-prom-date dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Jeff Roberson says that the ULE scheduler has entered into its probationary period as the default scheduler on FreeBSD. He says that if all goes well, it will remain the default through the rest of FreeBSD 5.* releases. He is requesting you to switch over and test it. The ULE scheduler was designed to address the growing needs of FreeBSD on SMP/SMT platforms and under heavy workloads. It supports CPU affinity and has constant execution time regardless of the number of threads."

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  1. Re:Does everyone know about GNU/KFreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    uhhhh. why not just use FreeBSD? I mean, seriously, does every piece of software have to have GNU/before it? If you like the kernel so much, why do you assume the rest of the userland must suck? Any GNU tools you specifically need you can install from ports or packages anyway. Projects like this GNU/KFreeBSD are just a waste of developer time to make someones ego feel better. well, whatever.

  2. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No one here has suggested making a new FreeBSD distribution.

    Instead of making a Linux-based GNU OS, they're making a FreeBSD-kernel-based GNU OS. Just the kernel, nothing else, just one replaceable piece of software of a Unix-like OS.

    Like the way GNU/Hurd is a hurd-based GNU OS, except GNU/Linux and GNU/KFreeBSD will use mature, proven kernels. This isn't about improving software quality for FreeBSD users, it's about improving software quality (or at least choice) for GNU/Linux users.

  3. Re:Does everyone know about GNU/KFreeBSD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > Wasn't it Bush that said Freedom should be limited?

    Some freedoms should be limited, that's how society works.

    For example, a good government trades away the publics right to kill each other and in return the public get a safer living environment. You have to decide which freedoms are important for a good society.

    The GPL says you have give others the same freedoms that were given to you. The BSD license says you can treat others whatever way you like. BSD is free-er, but I prefer the society created by GPL.

    With that said, I don't agree with Bush's choices of which freedoms are important.

    I don't live in the US, but it boggles the mind. Out of 200,000,000 people, you picked *him* to be the leader?