Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness

Andrew Morton
2003-10-01T04:54:15Z

"Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org> wrote:
>
> The render finishes in the same 30 minutes, then oowriter starts.
> oowriter takes about 3 seconds to load if no rendering is going on.

OpenOffice uses sched_yield() in strange ways which causes it to
get hopelessly starved on 2.6 kernels. I think RH have a fixed version,
but I don't know if that has propagated into the upstream yet.

So... Don't worry about OpenOffice too much. Is the problem reproducible
with other applications?