Right, thank you for reminding me that. I am running 2.4.18 without preemption patch! On 3/18/06, Gaurav Dhiman <gauravd.chd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I think you are not using the preemptable kernel. > > If its a preemptable kern\el, it will preempt the running context when > timeslice expires and and assign the CPU to other thread. > > Gaurav > -Gaurav > Email: gauravd.chd@xxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------- > Read my blog at: http://lkdp.blogspot.com/ > --------------------------------- > -- James cyu021@xxxxxxxxx -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/