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[vdr] Re: [PATCH] real time scheduling for vdr-1.2.6pre3



Sorry about the last mail, kmail from cvs = strange beast ....

On Monday 03 November 2003 17:58, Matthias Lötzke wrote:
> In article <200311021527.07180.aschultz@warp10.net>, you say...
>
> > Hi ppl,
> > 
> > A patch that lets vdr threads run at real time scheduling priorities can
> > be 
 found:
> > http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aschultz/dvd/1.2.6pre3-rt-1.diff.bz2
> > 
> > Comments are wellcome!
>
> 
> The patched realtime-VDR worked well for about 3 hours. After that there 
> were breaks in receiving of about two seconds every few minutes. The 
> next morning my VDR-box was frozen. It did not react anymore and I need 
> to perform a hardware reset.

mhh, you did run vdr with '-R' ?
 
> I think, we already diskussed the danger of running VDR as a realtime 
> task may be one year ago, so I wish you best luck to find and remove all 
> the cases in which the system might hang.

I have an idea about that. The next version should be safer ;-) The 
interressting part will be to 'fix' all the plugins.

Andreas

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