Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761131AbXFDTk4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:40:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758995AbXFDTku (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:40:50 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:58837 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758315AbXFDTkt (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:40:49 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 21:40:38 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Matt Mackall Cc: Rusty Russell , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Interesting interaction between lguest and CFS Message-ID: <20070604194038.GA15782@elte.hu> References: <20070604173710.GR11166@waste.org> <20070604181151.GA1745@elte.hu> <20070604184224.GH11115@waste.org> <20070604191229.GA12444@elte.hu> <20070604192755.GI11115@waste.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070604192755.GI11115@waste.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 22 * Matt Mackall wrote: > > ah, so both the shell and the 'competing' CPU hog was running within > > the same lguest instance? > > No. > > The CPU hog is running in the host. A single instance of lguest using > busybox is started in another shell. When it reaches a shell prompt, > -that- shell is occassionally unresponsive for long stretches. so the shell within lguest is affected by the CPU hog outside? Could you send me the sched-debug stats of the CPU hog and of the lguest host process as well? (or were those amongst the ones you already sent?) Ingo - 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/