Re: 2.6.37 considered stable?

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Fri Feb 04 2011 - 08:47:24 EST


On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 08:32 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> Chuckle. I've been running 2.6.37 here, with all of that new group
> scheduling stuff enabled, the desktop feels great and my only fuss is that
> kaffiene, when watching digital tv on my pcHD-3000 card, is NOT getting
> enough time so both the audio and the video have little 20 millisecond
> holes chopped in them at sub-second intervals. Not the most pleasant thing
> to watch. I would appreciate any suggestions on how to get such an
> application a higher priority.

If you have something that really needs tons of CPU, you can try echo
-10 > /proc/pid/autogroup. If your app has realtime constraints though,
nothing but realtime scheduling will help.

-Mike


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