On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:36 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > as for other details it's trivial to lock the daemon in memory and run > it at nice -4 to get a head start on parking even when at 100% cpu and > under memory load. >
Negative nice values are not the correct solution when dealing with RT constraints like this, you need SCHED_FIFO. You can't afford the chance that the scheduler could decide to run another task due to some internal heuristic. Lee - 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/