Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

Lee Revell
2005-07-05T05:13:49Z

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 11:36 -0700, dean gaudet wrote:
> as for other details it's trivial to lock the daemon in memory and run
> it at nice -4 to get a head start on parking even when at 100% cpu and
> under memory load.
>

Negative nice values are not the correct solution when dealing with RT
constraints like this, you need SCHED_FIFO. You can't afford the chance
that the scheduler could decide to run another task due to some internal
heuristic.

Lee