I found now out that the problem with RT throttling could happen when my application sends UDP broadcasts (and receive its own broadcast). Is this an already known problem? [137482.258011] hrtimer: interrupt took 9434 ns [178458.961966] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178458.967583] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178458.973295] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178458.980249] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178458.984994] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178458.990582] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178458.996292] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 102 [178459.000348] [sched_delayed] sched: RT throttling activated Jens -- 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