lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Jun]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: Strange load issues with 2.5.69/70 in both -mm and -bk trees.
From
Date
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 00:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Tom Sightler <ttsig@tuxyturvy.com> wrote:
> >
> > I simply reniced this process to -10 and
> > everything started working fine. Upon looking a little further it
> > seemed that the kernel was dynamically boosting the priority of the
> > process much higher than it probably should be, in the end, not leaving
> > enough CPU for playing the sounds without skipping.
>
> Yes, it seems that too many real-world applications are accidentally
> triggering this problem.
>
> Could you please run an strace of the boosted process, find out what it is
> doing to get itself boosted in this manner? Wait until things are in
> steady state and the process is boosted, then run `strace -tt <pid>' so we
> see the timing info.

The strace was quite large so I have uploaded it to
http://tuxyturvy.com/strace-pluginserver.gz

Please let me know if you need more info or if I can help in other ways.

Thanks,
Tom




-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:35    [W:1.097 / U:0.016 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site