Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:26:16 +1100 | From | Con Kolivas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM |
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Chris Wright wrote: > * 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.
They were nice -10. I changed them to nice -5 recently in -mm and that just got commited to -bk post 2.6.10
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