sched_ule(1) and sched_4bsd(1)

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Mon Jun 30 02:26:58 UTC 2008


> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:24:02 +0200
> From: cpghost <cpghost at cordula.ws>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> Hello,
> 
> the man-pages sched_4bsd(1) and sched_ule(1) as of
>   FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 28 22:44:54 CEST 2008
> both state that SCHED_4BSD is the default scheduler.
> Yet SCHED_ULE is now in GENERIC, and not SCHED_4BSD!
> 
> Are the man-pages wrong, or is it better to change
> SCHED_ULE back to SCHED_4BSD in a custom kernel
> config file? I'm using SCHED_ULE on UP systems for
> quite some time now, and there don't seem to be any
> regressions so far...

Looks like the man pages are a bit outdated. 4BSD was in GENERIC in
7.0-RELEASE, but it was changed to ULE in stable shortly after the
release of 7.0.
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