Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-03-15 Thread David Herbert
I've been affected by this bug. I'm using etch with a backport of boinc 5.10.44-1 and a custom 2.6.24 kernel. It seems that the /usr/share/boinc-client/udev-cpu_share script is not getting run or not working on my system, /etc/init.d/boinc-client status reports cpu_share: 1024 I tried sudo sh

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-02-24 Thread Frank S. Thomas
Hi Daniel, On Friday 22 February 2008 00:04, Daniel Hahler wrote: Frank S. Thomas wrote: Why is udev-usr_share installed into /usr/lib instead of /usr/share although it is architecture-independent? Probably I've seen it on another package or example done this way. Please move it to

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-02-21 Thread Frank S. Thomas
On Sunday 17 February 2008 19:33, James Westby wrote: I am attaching the patch used in Ubuntu to work around this issue for your consideration, and so I am also setting the patch tag again. The author of the patch, Daniel Hahler, acknowledges that it is a workaround, but I believe it is a

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-02-21 Thread Dhaval Giani
On 2/18/08, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tags 461630 patch thanks Hi, I am attaching the patch used in Ubuntu to work around this issue for your consideration, and so I am also setting the patch tag again. The author of the patch, Daniel Hahler, acknowledges that it is a

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-02-21 Thread Daniel Hahler
Frank S. Thomas wrote: I am attaching the patch used in Ubuntu to work around this issue for your consideration, and so I am also setting the patch tag again. The author of the patch, Daniel Hahler, acknowledges that it is a workaround, but I believe it is a working solution to the issue.

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-02-17 Thread James Westby
tags 461630 patch thanks Hi, I am attaching the patch used in Ubuntu to work around this issue for your consideration, and so I am also setting the patch tag again. The author of the patch, Daniel Hahler, acknowledges that it is a workaround, but I believe it is a working solution to the issue.

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-01-21 Thread Frank S. Thomas
Just for the record, this bug originated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177713, which has some additonal information regarding this report. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-01-21 Thread Dhaval Giani
On 1/21/08, Frank S. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just for the record, this bug originated from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177713, which has some additonal information regarding this report. Correct. This is not a boinc bug. This is due to the changed behaviour of the linux scheduler.

Bug#461630: Adjust cpu_share for boinc user (for 2.6.24 cfs scheduler)

2008-01-19 Thread dAniel hAhler
Package: boinc-client Version: 5.10.30-2 Severity: important Tags: patch --- Please enter the report below this line. --- The CFS in Linux 2.6.24 has the side effect that the boinc user's idle process takes about half of the cpu cycles. This causes severe performance regressions when running