On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 17:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 23:06 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 19:12, Chuck Martin wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:30:15PM +1100, Loki Davison > > loki.davison-at-gmail.com |LAU| wrote: > > > > On 2/7/06, Chuck Martin <dsdhpnw02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I've been trying to get a realtime kernel running, but every kernel > > > > > I've tried with a realtime patch slows my clock to a crawl, which > > > > > causes my time (as shown with the date command) to be off. It also > > > > > causes any program that has a delay to wait far longer than it should. > > > > > "sleep 1" can take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds. > > > > > > > > > > My most recent try was with patch-2.6.15-rt16, which I've tried > > > > > applying to both the 2.6.15 and 2.6.15.2 kernels, with the same result. > > > > > Does anyone have any idea what I could be doing wrong, since no one > > > > > else on this list seems to be having this problem. > > > > > > > > Dual core amd 64 or not? > > > > > > No and no. 600MHz Pentium III. > > > > > > Chuck > > Do you have the problem with 2.6.15.x (the non-realtime kernel)? > Hmm, IIRC this might have been related to the softirq timer thread being preempted - try setting it to the maximum RT priorirty (99). Lee
