Re: heartbeat panic by heavy traffic

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:

>But the clock softint shouldn't be locked out for 16s, ever.

Then the clock softint must have a higher priority than
everything else including hard interrupts.

Obviously that's not how the system is designed, there
are no limits on how long specific events may take and
thus no guarantee for lower priority tasks to actually
execute with a certain time. That would be some kind
of real-time system.

Such systems also rarely panic if they detect a violation
of their rules.

In any case, locking out lower priority tasks by an
overwhelmed network layer probably isn't the bug that
we look for.