[mythtv] SCHED_RR

[Steve Hill]

Has anyone tried to make the time-critical threads in Myth (i.e. reading 
from the TV card) run under the SCHED_RR scheduler?

I was having a go yesterday by setting SCHED_RR on line 915 of 
NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp - just above "while (encoding) {", then setting 
back to SCHED_OTHER at the end of the while loop.

The results were quite promising - it seemed to make the recorder much 
more robust to stray processes trying to use too much CPU time.  
Unfortunately, it caused my machine to lock up when changing channels.

I was wondering if anyone else had done any work on this before spending a 
long time trying to debug the problem?

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