Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [ck] 2.6.16-ck9 | From | Juho Saarikko <> | Date | 03 May 2006 23:21:38 +0300 |
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On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 19:25, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >I tried to run SetiAtHome at IDLEPRIO, but it competes equally with a > >while(1); loop run at nice 19. I'm starting to wonder if there isn't > >some kind of bug in the kernel which results in a program returning from > >a system call with an in-kernel semaphore held. After all, according to > >top, SetiAtHome consumes over 90% CPU, and the system consumes only > >about 1%, so it can't be making system calls all the time either. > > SAH does make very few system calls in relation to its computing, in fact. > [It's a guess, not a proven answer.] The boinc supervisor process is mostly > the syscall, filesystem and networking part. > > >This pattern just keeps on repeating, endlessly. Occasionally it also > >has > > > >kill(5432, SIG_0) = 0 > > > >attached to it. 5432 is the parent process, the FAH502-Linux.exe. > > You don't use boinc?
AARRGGHH. I meant FoldingAtHome.
That's what I get from not paying attention to what I'm typing ;(.
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