> I quite frankly have no idea under which circumstances process > scheduling would fail under a kernel which is otherwise still > running.
I don't think I've seen that, strictly, but I have seen failure modes which have much the same effect (no userland processes running but the kernel proper is still up). For example, I once saw a failure mode which ended up locking up all disk access. Anything that was running could run as long as it never touched the disk, but try to page, try to open a file, anything, and that process wedged hard. Not strictly a scheduler failure, but the end effect was pretty much the same. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
