Thomas Gleixner schrieb: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Armin Steinhoff wrote: >> 8. And your second suspicion is that the ps utility is broken. >> The question about the operation of "ps" was just a formal one .. sorry. > Well, I'd say it's not formal. Let me cite from your previous mail: > >>>> If the app "demo_mn_console" has started its first RT thread, a >>>> lot of other processes/threads are jumping to the highest RT >>>> priority 99!! > Did you ever try to invoke: > > # man ps > > and try to figure out what the PRI field actually means? Definitely > not. > > My version of "man ps" tells me: > > pri PRI priority of the process. Higher number means > lower priority. I have two version of the "man ps" ... the statement of man page 1p isn't applicable for SCHED_FIFO/SCHED_RR because 99 is right here the highest prio for the scheduling. Sorry for not bothering about the confusing handling of priorities within LINUX ... --Armin -- 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