Re: Process priority in 2.4.18 (RedHat 7.3)

Paul Faure (paul@engsoc.org)
Thu, 16 May 2002 20:40:44 -0400 (EDT)


It would seem that it only occurs when running the application (that takes
100% of the CPU) as root.

As for testing it with other cards, I only have this one card.

Thanks for your time... its not a big issue now since I can run my
application as a non privileged user.

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 02:06:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > of transmit attempts and is relying on ksoftirqd to transmit.
>
> ksoftirqd or not the softirq are guaranteed to keep running even if
> there's a task in loop with SCHED_FIFO, ksoftirqd only enhance/polish
> the case of a recursive softirq, or a very big flood of softirq events,
> it is not required to run softirqs.
>
> Andrea
>

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