Re: cgroup task groups appears sensitive to absolute magnitude ofshares

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Oct 10 2008 - 03:54:21 EST


On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 08:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:00 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
>
> > Going to 4000/2000/1000/200 doesn't seem to give noticeable
> > improvements, and going to 40000/20000/10000/2000 causes the test to
> > behave unpredictably, either taking abnormally long to complete or else
> > not completing at all.
>
> Hmm, I would have expected it to work for at least the normal nice range
> of weight values..
>
> Will have to look into that I suppose..

One thought, are you running 32 or 64 bit? If you're on 32, could you
try 64? If that fixes it its probably an easy fix, otherwise I fear it
might take a bit more..

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