[mdlug] OT: Solaris 10 Priority Scheduling

[Aaron Kulkis]

David Lane wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> We are facing a challenging issue.
> 
> We have performance issueson a multi CPU server. Our benchmark (sum of square-roots 1 - 1,000,000) runs 20 sec on a a multi cpu system. Yet it runs less than a sec on a single CPU system and on my desktop. 
> 
> When we found this we started to explore scheduling priorities.
> 
> If a process is running slow and needs to run faster on Solaris, what are odd options to tweek performance?
>  
> Where are SYS 60-99 processes assigned ?
> 
> David C. Lane

I assume that this is on a system with ample CPU idle time
and the I/O channels are not saturated?