>I'm still working on something for the "xmms stalls if started during very
>heavy load" as a different corner case.
One way to deal with that problem would be to create a very high priority
queue which is reserved for very light weight tasks, and heavily protected
against them going cpu hungry. If a forking task has a run history worthy
of trial, slip it straight into the high priority queue... and be prepared
to beat it into submission should it misbehave (short term run_avg ever
exceeds X, you're outta here buddy, and if this queue is consuming more
than Y, sorry, we're closed).
Another way would be to factor task age into the priority calculation, with
age becoming rapidly less important. Xmms' audio threads are light weight,
and will quickly be able to sustain their priority. Others would
(hopefully) rapidly fall down where they belong.
Just a couple random thoughts, both of which I can see problems with ;-)
-Mike
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