On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: >* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> yeah, i guess this has little to do with X. I think in your scenario >> it might have been smarter to either stop, or to renice the workloads >> that took away CPU power from others to _positive_ nice levels. >> Negative nice levels can indeed be dangerous. > >btw., was X itself at nice 0 or nice -10 when the lockup happened? > > Ingo
Memory could be fuzzy Ingo, but I think it was at 0 at the time. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/