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SubjectRe: [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.

Con
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