Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964786AbVL1LeY (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:34:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964793AbVL1LeY (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:34:24 -0500 Received: from 213-140-2-70.ip.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.70]:44215 "EHLO aa003msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964786AbVL1LeY (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:34:24 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:35:47 +0100 From: Paolo Ornati To: Con Kolivas Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [SCHED] Totally WRONG prority calculation with specific test-case (since 2.6.10-bk12) Message-ID: <20051228123547.7d52501f@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200512282219.24185.kernel@kolivas.org> References: <20051227190918.65c2abac@localhost> <200512281027.00252.kernel@kolivas.org> <20051228120129.2a8d1199@localhost> <200512282219.24185.kernel@kolivas.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 22 On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 22:19:23 +1100 Con Kolivas wrote: > This latter thing sounds more like your transcode job pushed everything out to > swap... You need to instrument this case better. > I don't know. The combination Swapped Out Programs + "normal" priority strangeness can potentially result in a total disaster... but why renicing transcode to "0" gets the system usable again? Next time I'll grab "/proc/meminfo"... and what other info can help to understand? -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.15-rc5-plugsched on x86_64 - 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/