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Message-Id: <200704241042.11743.gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:42:11 -0400
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@...pond.net.au>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@....jussieu.fr>,
Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>, ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>,
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, caglar@...dus.org.tr
Subject: Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44
On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>> yeah, i guess this has little to do with X. I think in your scenario
>> it might have been smarter to either stop, or to renice the workloads
>> that took away CPU power from others to _positive_ nice levels.
>> Negative nice levels can indeed be dangerous.
>
>btw., was X itself at nice 0 or nice -10 when the lockup happened?
>
> Ingo
Memory could be fuzzy Ingo, but I think it was at 0 at the time.
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