Con Kolivas wrote: > Here is the best fix for the bug pointed out. Thanks.
> Ensure niced tasks are not inappropriately limiting sleeping unniced tasks > by explicitly checking what the best static priority that has run this > major rotation was. yes, this made the machine usable again. After noticing that the context switch rate during a "nice -19 make -j2" has now been halved vs stock 2.6.20, compiled a kernel under both and RSDL w/these two patches was 2% faster; so this may be the right direction after all :) artur - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/