[Vm-dev] setting rtprio on ubuntu 18 x64 box appears to fail

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 07:36:43 UTC 2020


Hi David,   I created an issue for this:
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/issues/540

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:12 AM stes at PANDORA.BE <stes at telenet.be> wrote:

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> Hi,
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> The warning/error
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> pthread_setschedparam failed: Not owner
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> is also happening on Solaris, and obviously it also prints some text,
> which does not really make sense on Solaris.
>
> I have documented on the following Wiki how to get rid of this
> warning/error
> on Solaris:
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>         https://sourceforge.net/p/solaris-squeak/wiki/Home/
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> I don't know how to fix the issue specifically on your Ubuntu distribution,
> but possibly it makes sense to - when the error happens - to print a
> simple:
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> "error: pthread_setschedparam failed: Not owner
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> or
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> "error: heartbeat thread unable to run at higher priority"
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> Such a simple short message would be sufficient, and then the user can
> try to do some research and find fixes for the specific platform,
> where the error happens.
>
> I can imagine that on various Unix flavors the instructions for:
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>  /etc/security/limits.d/squeak.conf
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> do not apply.
>
> Also note that in my limited experience on Solaris, I can either fix
> the warning (by having threads run at different priorities) or ignore
> the warning, as it does not seem to make much difference ...
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> But it's not nice that an extensive error message is printed,
> certainly not when it does not apply to that specific Unix distribution.
>
> Regards,
> David Stes
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best, Eliot
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