Re: Interesting interaction between lguest and CFS

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> wrote:

> Ok, my transcoding just finished as I was writing this. So I've 
> reproduced the problem with this Python script that I had handy:
> 
> memload.py:
> #!/usr/bin/python
> a = "a" * 16 * 1024 * 1024
> while 1:
>     b = a[1:] + "b"
>     a = b[1:] + "c"

i suspect the same latency is triggered by a simple infinite loop too:

	while : ; do : ; done &

correct?

	Ingo