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Subject: RE: process starvation with 2.6 scheduler
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Kallol Biswas <Kallol_Biswas@pmc-sierra.com>
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On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 14:58 -0700, Kallol Biswas wrote:
> Thanks for help. We do not see the issue if every netserver's priority is set to 19 with setpriority() call.

FYI, there have been changes to the scheduler since 2.6.11 days that
reduce the likelihood of this scenario somewhat.

	-Mike