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At 08:50 AM 8/18/2005 -0600, Davda, Bhavesh P \(Bhavesh\) wrote:
>
> > Sounds like there must be another player who is RT prio + spinning.
>
>Very good! Yes, I left out that piece of detail in my original posting.
>There is a real low priority (4) SCHED_FIFO (hence still higher than any
>SCHED_OTHER) task spinning.

That's a (fairly) deadly bug.

         -Mike