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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0 SCHED_RR/SCHED_FIFO strangness .
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Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at> wrote:
>
>  The strange thing is that SCHED_FIFO runs always return worse results than
>   SCHED_RR runs under even moderate load (one find / in an endless loop, system
>   otherwise idle) - any ideas what is causing this ?

Can you send us the entire test app?