Re: Strange load issues with 2.5.69/70 in both -mm and -bk trees.

[Andrew Morton]

Tom Sightler <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I simply reniced this process to -10 and
>  everything started working fine.  Upon looking a little further it
>  seemed that the kernel was dynamically boosting the priority of the
>  process much higher than it probably should be, in the end, not leaving
>  enough CPU for playing the sounds without skipping.

Yes, it seems that too many real-world applications are accidentally
triggering this problem.

Could you please run an strace of the boosted process, find out what it is
doing to get itself boosted in this manner?  Wait until things are in
steady state and the process is boosted, then run `strace -tt <pid>' so we
see the timing info.

Thanks.