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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM
    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

    Cheers,
    Con
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