Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Strange load issues with 2.5.69/70 in both -mm and -bk trees. | From | Tom Sightler <> | Date | 01 Jun 2003 13:36:32 -0400 |
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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
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