An example of what I'm seeing from latencytop is: [kfree] 7937.6 msec 6.4 % I poked around the kernel source a bit and was pretty stumped by this, so I'm glad it's not just me. Thanks, -Austin On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Austin Hendrix wrote: >> I'm running 3.4.4-rt13 on my systems, and while the realtime >> performance is great, I occasionally see non-realtime processes block >> for several seconds. Running latencytop, it looks like the kfree >> kernel process is the worst offender. Does anyone have advice on how I > > There is no kfree process. kfree() is a function to release memory > allocated by kmalloc. > > Can you provide the latencytop output please ? > > Thanks, > > tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
