[LAD] cpu spikes

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 03:03:08PM +0100, Fokke de Jong wrote:

> I remember reading somewhere that realtime threads cannot run
> more than .95s every second. That would be very bad if it
> actually meant my threads are blocked  run for a period of 50ms
> straight…

If your normal load is around 50% you shouldn't ever hit that limit.

Do you lock all memory used by your RT threads ? 

If you don't and the system is configured for high swappiness
[1] this sort of thing could happen. 

I'm routinely running big real-time convolution matrices without
problems, so it's certainly possible. 


[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness>

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