From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: David Steven Trollope <trollope@lucent.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linux Realtime Scheduling Option
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050318181204.GA31713@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423B01EC.9060509@lucent.com>
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:29:32AM -0600, David Steven Trollope wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm working on a project that uses Linux 2.4 on a PowerPC processor with
> real time scheduling.
>
> One of the issues we've encountered is that when the application being
> debugged is running real time and gdb/gdbserver is not, scheduling
> problems occur.
>
> I'm wondering if its possible to have an option added to gdb and the
> .gdbinit file which specifies the realtime priority which gdb/gdbserver
> should run at.
>
> I searched the mailing list and do not find anything related to this in
> the past.
>
> Has anyone got experience in this area? Do patches already exist?
This is not a good idea. There are existing Linux tools to change the
realtime priority of a process; why can't you use them to change the
priority of the debugger? You can even do this after starting the
inferior process if it isn't smart enough to reset its own priority.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1093622671.2836.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2004-08-27 17:56 ` GDB/MI Output Syntax Jim Ingham
2004-08-27 19:12 ` Michael Chastain
2005-01-05 23:27 ` Bob Rossi
2005-01-06 4:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-06 23:31 ` Bob Rossi
2005-01-07 0:36 ` Jim Ingham
2005-01-07 1:12 ` Bob Rossi
2005-01-07 3:12 ` Russell Shaw
2005-01-11 19:35 ` Bob Rossi
2005-01-13 2:23 ` Bob Rossi
2005-01-13 2:46 ` Intrusive GDB Symbol Lookup when debugging remotely David Steven Trollope
2005-01-22 4:25 ` Dave Trollope
2005-01-24 19:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2005-01-24 19:54 ` David Steven Trollope
2005-03-18 16:29 ` Linux Realtime Scheduling Option David Steven Trollope
2005-03-18 18:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-03-21 19:21 ` David Steven Trollope
2005-03-21 19:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-22 3:04 ` Dave Trollope
2005-03-22 4:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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