Re: [BUG] How to get real-time priority using idle priority
From: Brian Rogers
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 20:05:55 EST
Ingo Molnar wrote:
i've applied your fix to tip/sched/urgent and merged it into tip/master.
Brian, you might want to test tip/master, as per:
http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
which now has this fix included. Can you make it break?
Yeah, I was able to trigger the same freeze again once on my desktop,
but it appears to be harder to trigger now. I couldn't get my program to
freeze the system, but one of the times I suspended then resumed BOINC,
it happened.
While experimenting on my laptop, things got into a funny state where
konsole froze, then gnome-terminal froze, so I just started launching
xterms. pgrep and pidof would freeze and never terminate. ps axl froze
after listing process 23681, which was a BOINC process. The next
process, 23682, was another BOINC process. Going into /proc/23682 and
running ls -l as root froze the shell. I figured out that ls -l exe was
enough to freeze it. I couldn't shut down BOINC because process 23682
wouldn't close, and kill -9 did nothing to it. top, which actually did
work, showed that process just continuing to run with around 100% CPU
time. I had to power cycle the system.
I'll try Mike's "more complete" patch on top of 2.6.29-rc1 and see what
that does.
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