Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270645AbTG0Bh5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:37:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270646AbTG0Bh5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:37:57 -0400 Received: from c210-49-248-224.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:45708 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270645AbTG0Bh4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jul 2003 21:37:56 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Guillaume Chazarain Subject: Re: [PATCH] O9int for interactivity Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:57:19 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307271157.19010.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 21 On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:20, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > Hi Con, > > Strange your activate() function in O9. Isn't it? > It doesn't care that much about sleep_time. > > So here is a very simple trouble maker. Yes I know it's a way to make something fairly cpu intensive remain interactive. However since it sleeps long enough (2ms at 1000Hz is just enough), it doesn't bring the machine to a standstill, and is easily killable. I doubt it is worth working around this, but I'm open to your comments about variations on this theme that might be a problem. Con - 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/