Subject: Re: 2.6.37 considered stable?
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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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