Re: [LAD] cpu spikes

From: Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 13:23:09 EET

hi *!

sorry to hijack this thread, but: when enquiring about latency tuning,
one frequently encounters hints like "disable cron", "disable indexing
services", "disable this, disable that".

however, none of those alleged culprits run with real-time privileges or
access driver or kernel code which does. so how can they be a problem
(and disabling them part of the solution)? i'm asking because i've got
my own anecdotal evidence that it *does* make a difference...

i understand how device drivers can be nasty (graphics cards locking up
the pci bus, wifi chips hogging the kernel for milliseconds at a time or
worse...) but it seems that a) either kernel preemption and real-time
scheduling is terribly buggy or hand-wavey, or b) we're feeding each
other snake-oil in recommending to disable userspace things that is
running without rt privs.

i'd love to be educated on this.

best,

jörn

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