Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:44:59 -0800 From: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Wes Morgan <morganw@engr.sc.edu>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ntpd hanging machine Message-ID: <38BF5F6B.98D801AC@gorean.org> References: <200003030045.TAA42128@hda.hda.com>
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Peter Dufault wrote:
> It's probably almost safe to run a program
> rtprio or idprio if all you do is compute during that time and
> go back to time sharing before doing anything else, but be sure
> you're paged in, don't handle signals that way, etc...
I ran rc5des idprio'ed for well over a year on 2.2.8, 3.2+ and 4.0
systems and never had a problem. Sounds like it fell just into your
parameters here though. Perhaps a stern warning in the man page(s) is in
order here? I had no idea I was making land mines for myself here. :)
Doug
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