Messages in this thread | | | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [SCHED] Totally WRONG prority calculation with specific test-case (since 2.6.10-bk12) | Date | Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:19:23 +1100 |
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On Wednesday 28 December 2005 22:01, Paolo Ornati wrote: > after some hours of running transcode (with me away from the > machine) I've found a totally UNUSABLE system. Transcode was the king > of the machine and everything else get almost no CPU time. Switching to > a Text-Console takes something like 10s (or something like that). When > I was finally logged in as root I've reniced transcode and companyto +19 > and the system was usable again ;) > > To get things even more STRANGE: another time that this happened I've > done the same thing except that I've reniced them to "0" (the same nice > level they were running) ---> And the system became usable again (with > the usual slow down but still usable). > > This is what I remember. Now I think we can agree that there is > something wrong... no?
This latter thing sounds more like your transcode job pushed everything out to swap... You need to instrument this case better.
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