Re: SCHED_RR/SCHED_FIFO and kernel threads?

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 17:25 +0200, Patrik Hägglund wrote:
> For example, in one virtual 
> terminal I stared a "supervisor" shell with SCHED_FIFO at priority
> 20, 
> and then the job tasks I wanted to "run" in other virtual terminals,
> now 
> still with SCHED_FIFO, but with lower priorities. 

I believe there's a Sysrq to drop all SCHED_FIFO processes to
SCHED_OTHER.  But yes, in general, bad things will happen if you are not
careful with SCHED_FIFO.

Lee

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