docs/110253: rtprio(1): remove processing starvation comment fro
>Number: 110253
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: rtprio(1): remove processing starvation comment from BUGS section
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 13 09:10:13 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Nikos Vassiliadis
>Release: 6.2-STABLE
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
FreeBSD wmail.teledomenet.gr 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Mar 6 12:08:23 EET 2007 root@wmail.teledomenet.gr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
This comment in no longer true, as far as I know.
It's a bit scary and I think it prevents people
from using these nice features.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- /usr/src/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1 Mon Mar 20 13:45:45 2006
+++ /tmp/src/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1 Tue Mar 13 10:40:43 2007
@@ -184,9 +184,3 @@
the process may be stopped for pagein (see
.Xr mprotect 2 ,
.Xr madvise 2 ) .
-.Pp
-Under
-.Fx
-system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-realtime
-processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes can
-starve normal priority processes.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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