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Subject: Re: sched_yield proposals/rationale
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 04:31 -0400, Buytaert_Steven@emc.com wrote:
> Since the new 2.6.x O(1) scheduler I'm having latency problems. 

1. Have you elevated the process priority?
2. Have you tried running SCHED_FIFO, or SCHED_RR?