Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

[Lee Revell]

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

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