Hi, On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > Problem is that idprio isn't safe. I used to idprio the rc5client, but > within a day or do the machine would lock up. oops. That's new for me. I'm running the 'rc5client' on various machines (2.2.6-stable, 2.2.8-stable, 3.1-stable, 3.2-stable, 4.0-current) at the lowest idle priority. I had definately no problems so far.
> Rc5client would get a > lock on the root of the filesystem at idprio, and if there was another > process running at 100% CPU, rc5client would never get a chance to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ at least 3 of the machines are on 'heavy cpu-duty' and are very used to run 100% cpu processes. (e.g. batch graphic filtering, 3D-rendering, etc.) > See PR kern/5641. I'll have a look ... -Andreas -- : Anti-Spam Petition: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ : : PGP-Key: http://www.tse-online.de/~ab/public-key : : Key fingerprint: 12 13 EF BC 22 DD F4 B6 3C 25 C9 06 DC D3 45 9B : To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message