>So, SCHED_FIFO wasn't always broken -- I haven't kept up >with the details of how it broke under 2.4 and whether or >not its truly fixed, but if your goal is to just get a >system up where SCHED_FIFO is known to work in order to >do initial code debugging, 2.2.17 is known to work ...
it seems fine in 2.4.0 as well. or put another way, there is a night-and-day difference between using it and not using it :) --p