Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 2004 12:05:30 +1000 | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Staircase scheduler v7.4 |
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Michael Buesch wrote: | On Friday 25 June 2004 21:05, you wrote: | |>>Hi Michael, |>> |>>On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:44:22PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: |>> |>> |>>>I don't know what the file wchan is good for, but here is |>>>it's output: |>>>mb@lfs:/proc/11000> cat wchan |>>>sys_wait4 |>> |>>I bet the process is waiting for a SIGCHLD from a previously forked |>>process. Con, would it be possible that under some circumstances, |>>a process does not receive a SIGCHLD anymore, eg if the child runs |>>shorter than a full timeslice or something like that ? In autoconf |>>scripts, there are lots of very short operations that might trigger |>>such unique cases. | But as the load grows, the system is usable as with load 0.0. | And it really should be usable with 76.0% nice. ;) No problem here. | This really high load is not correct.
I think you're right about having no timeslice.
It does appear that I fixed two things and introduced 2 more bugs. I'll fix it in the next couple of days.
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