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

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Andreas Schultz wrote:
> 
> 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.

Please don't start a "schism" here. Plugins should not _require_ this!

Klaus


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