Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

From: Gene Heskett
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 10:42:31 EST


On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> 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.

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