From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Mikael Starvik <mikael.starvik@axis.com>
Cc: "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Very long startup time for a new thread
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:14:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152774895.3024.13.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BFECAF9E178F144FAEF2BF4CE739C668030B55B0@exmail1.se.axis.com>
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 08:07 +0200, Mikael Starvik wrote:
> (This is on a 200 MIPS embedded architecture).
>
> On a heavily loaded system (loadavg ~4) I create a new pthread. In this
> situation it takes ~4 seconds (!) before the thread is first scheduled in
> (yes, I have debug outputs in the scheduler to check that). In a 2.4 based
> system I don't see the same thing. I don't have any RT or FIFO tasks. Any
> ideas why it takes so long time and what I can do about it?
I assume you're using a new enough glibc that supports NPTL ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-13 7:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-13 6:07 Mikael Starvik
2006-07-13 7:14 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-07-13 7:36 ` Mike Galbraith
[not found] <BFECAF9E178F144FAEF2BF4CE739C66803F33440@exmail1.se.axis.com>
2006-07-13 7:51 ` Mikael Starvik
2006-07-17 8:44 Mikael Starvik
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