On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 07:15 +0000, tip-bot for Ingo Molnar wrote: > Commit-ID: 98e4833ba3c314c99dc364012fba6ac894230ad0 > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/98e4833ba3c314c99dc364012fba6ac894230ad0 > Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > AuthorDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:03:09 +0100 > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> > CommitDate: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:03:09 +0100 > > ring-buffer benchmark: Run producer/consumer threads at nice +19 > > The ring-buffer benchmark threads run on nice 0 by default, using > up a lot of CPU time and slowing down the system: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > 1024 root 20 0 0 0 0 D 95.3 0.0 4:01.67 rb_producer > 1023 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 93.5 0.0 2:54.33 rb_consumer > 21569 mingo 40 0 14852 1048 772 R 3.6 0.1 0:00.05 top > 1 root 40 0 4080 928 668 S 0.0 0.0 0:23.98 init > > Renice them to +19 to make them less intrusive. Ingo, that is the point of a benchmark! This module is not made to be run all the time. I know you do it for testing. But running it at lowest priority kills the reason this module was made in the first place! -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html