Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:13:19 -0800 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > you are right, i forgot about kernel threads. If they are nice -10 on > Jack's system too then they are within striking range indeed, especially > since they are typically idle and if then they are active for short > bursts of time and get the maximum boost. Jack, could you renice these > to -5, to make sure they dont interfere?
Yup, their bursty nature makes them seem a likely culprit.
> btw., why are these at nice -10? workqueue.c sets nice value to -5 > normally.
Heh, I was just wondering the same thing.
BTW, grepping set_user_nice shows a few more possible culprits. One more reason that there may be value in promoting the audio app to rt scheduling.
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