From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 17 12:34:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02676 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA02671 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:34:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA08983 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:34:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA18655; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:50:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970617185032.VJ21658@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:50:32 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rtprio from non-root users ? References: <19970615103831.BN11477@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199706170803.KAA17560@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706170803.KAA17560@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Jun 17, 1997 10:03:42 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > In light of the recent discussion on disk scheduling etc. it turns > out that probably the biggest danger for a correct cd burn is the > fact that a process may be starved by another disk-intensive activity > (although team is so aggressive that it is unlikely to become the > victim of starvation). Right. I've seen it starving when heavy paging was going on (from a netpbm process allocating way more than the physical memory). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)