Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264126AbTFPS0y (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:26:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264146AbTFPS0x (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:26:53 -0400 Received: from westhill.hyglo.com ([62.119.43.37]:47558 "EHLO westhill.hyglo.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264126AbTFPSZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jun 2003 14:25:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3EEE0EEA.9080208@hyglo.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 20:39:38 +0200 From: Peter Enderborg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: vmware strange scheduling priority Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Jun 2003 18:39:42.0917 (UTC) FILETIME=[A6E15750:01C33436] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1129 Lines: 28 Im playing with vmware 4.0 workstation. And it do some strange things. I start vmware with nice and I got this: 26499 pme 19 19 95980 93M 95020 R N 12 32.6 24.8 8:55 vmware-vmx 26439 pme 19 19 8416 8008 7692 R N 8 3.2 2.0 2:02 vmware-vmx 26492 pme 6 -10 95980 93M 95020 R < 12 2.6 24.8 0:34 vmware-vmx 26409 pme 19 19 4900 3916 2484 S N 0 1.0 1.0 0:29 vmware 26433 pme 5 -10 8416 8008 7692 S < 8 0.5 2.0 0:29 vmware-vmx 26493 pme 5 -10 8056 7268 6988 S < 0 0.5 1.8 0:20 vmware-mks 26495 pme 9 0 67672 65M 66888 S 0 0.2 17.4 0:11 vmware-vmx It have changed the prioority to -10 for some of its own tasks. How can that be done? Its a non suid binary started by a normal user. It's very ugly, but Im more intressted in how it can be done. The kernel is a 2.4.20. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/