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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 scheduling(?) oddness
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"Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org> wrote:
>
> The render finishes in the same 30 minutes, then oowriter starts.
>  oowriter takes about 3 seconds to load if no rendering is going on.

OpenOffice uses sched_yield() in strange ways which causes it to
get hopelessly starved on 2.6 kernels.  I think RH have a fixed version,
but I don't know if that has propagated into the upstream yet.

So...  Don't worry about OpenOffice too much.  Is the problem reproducible
with other applications?