Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | (Måns Rullgård) | Subject | Re: [BUG] Serious scheduler starvation | Date | Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:17:17 +0200 |
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Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> writes:
>> First the machine details. It's a Pentium4 running at 2 GHz. Linux >> version 2.6.0-test3 + O16int + softrr. > > Softrr ? Which patch? Davide's? Noone has tried to make them compatible > (yet?). Even so, this may be unrelated to softrr.
Are there more than one. I'm using something off xmailserver.org. Anyhow, no softrr tasks were running at the time.
>> What can I do to collect more information about the problem? > > Run top in batch mode as root reniced to -11 so it doesn't get preempted and > capture it happening before you kill XEmacs. Then try running XEmacs niced > +10 and see if it doesn't happen there. Also if it was lucky enough that you > booted with profiling enabled you could profile it, but top will > tell if it's a simple scheduler starvation error.
I'll do that, it's easily reproducible, at least.
-- Måns Rullgård mru@users.sf.net
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