On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 20 Aug 2009, at 03:34, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > [...] > > The problem appears to now be that the userland process that reads > > data > > out of the kernel is being stalled for over 4 seconds. This process > > reads from the kernel and does some minor processing and then > > writes it > > out to a child process to do some more work on it. > > > > [...] > > Given that renice'ing has an effect it seems to be a scheduler > > problem, [etc] > > Which scheduler are you using? Have you tried the other one?
This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2. I could probably try it though... -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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