RELENG_6: Which scheduler for SMP?

[Pete French]

> What I am trying to decide is whether there any point in making the jump 
> from a very stable RELENG_5 system to RELENG_6. AIUI the ULE scheduler 
> and it's associated options optimize the use of multiple CPUs and by 
> staying with 4BSD I'm not getting the best performance from my system.

I'm not using ULE either - but I got a 15 percent speedup out of our SMP
systems when moving from RELENG_5 to 6.0-RELEASE. Definitely worth doing
in my opinion and am now upgrading all the production systems to 6.0

> Can anyone offer any advice on this please?

Yes, do it. Its a definite improvement.

-pcf.