[mythtv-users] Force Comm Flagger to FE

Ma Begaj derliebegott at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 07:58:36 UTC 2007


> Drifting a little toward off topic, but not too far... kernel 2.6.23 features a
> new scheduler (old news). It includes provision of SCHED_IDLEPRIO, which
> originated with the now defunct ck kernel series -
>   <http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/SchedulingPolicies#SCHED_IDLEPRIO>
>
> I'm a long time user of ck kernels and value SCHED_IDLEPRIO highly. On my myth
> systems I use it for commflag and transcode jobs, and it's just brilliant -
> maximum throughput on the backstage grinds with zero impact on front of house
> stuff.
>
> Granted, this is dependent on kernel >=2.6.23, but eventually that will permeate
> to the distributions so it's possibly worth some thought somewhere along the way.
>


this sounds nice. I did not hear about it. so it is a part of 2.6.23 alread?
I think, I am going to compile kernel today :). But only if I find one
hour where my mythbox is not busy :).

thanks for the info.

M.


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