Blocked process

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 20 Aug 2009, at 03:34, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > [...]
> > The problem appears to now be that the userland process that reads
> > data
> > out of the kernel is being stalled for over 4 seconds. This process
> > reads from the kernel and does some minor processing and then
> > writes it
> > out to a child process to do some more work on it.
> >
> > [...]
> > Given that renice'ing has an effect it seems to be a scheduler
> > problem, [etc]
>
> Which scheduler are you using? Have you tried the other one?

This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression ULE 
wasn't very stable in 6.2.

I could probably try it though...

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