Re: 2.5.64-mm2->4 hangs on contest

Mike Galbraith
2003-03-10T13:49:03Z

At 07:43 AM 3/10/2003 -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
>Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > At 09:31 PM 3/10/2003 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote:
> >>On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:31, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >> > Ahem. Attached this time.
> >>
> >>I assume this is against bk? I'll massage it into 2.5.64-mm4
>
>Suspect that the interactivity changes have make the problem that my
>ptg patch is designed to fix easier to hit.

I think the problem I'm hitting is that the HUGE context switching that
irman does causes the process load proggies to constantly max out their
sleep average. There are no threads involved in irman, it's just plain old
fork().

-Mike