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SubjectRe: Regression with idle cpu cycle handling in 2.6.24 (compared to 2.6.22)
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:52:44PM +0100, dAniel hAhler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've now found the reason and a workaround for this. Apparently, it's
> related to CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED and can be worked around by
> assigning a really small value to the boinc users cpu_share (125 is
> the uid of "boinc"):
> $ echo 2 | sudo tee /sys/kernel/uids/125/cpu_share
>

Correct, that is the way to go about it.

> While looking around, I've found the following patch, which seems to
> address this:
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0710.3/3849.html
>
> It has been posted here, but without any response.
>
> btw: writing 1 into "cpu_share" totally locks up the computer!
>

Can you please provide some more details. Can you go into another
console (try ctrl-alt-f1) and try to reproduce the issue there. Could
you take a photo of the oops/panic and upload it somewhere so that we
can see it?

Thanks
--
regards,
Dhaval


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