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+date: "2002-02-19T15:36:26Z"
+title: Priority Inversion
+---
+
+<p>
+An amusing example of a lack of proper priority inversion handling from the LKML:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<i>
+One mainframe at MIT
+was decomissioned in the early 70's and they found a "run only when idle"
+task that had been started around seven years earlier and still hadn't gotten
+any time slices because the server had never been completely idle. (The
+pathfinder mars probe kept rebooting for a similar reason: a vital system
+task was getting starved while it held a semaphore that other stuff needed,
+and not scheduling before timeouts caused a reboot.
+</i>
+</p>
+