Subj : Re: Solaris real-time thread capabilities
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.programming.threads
From : Greg Menke
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 01:42 am

David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> Greg Menke wrote:
> > IP does not guarantee you realtime transfer of data- or even reasonably
> > bounded latency.  Its not clear what your "packages" are or how you're
> > transferring them, so I assume you're sending packets via UDP.
> 
> That's a big assumption, isn't it? He/she didn't say anything about networking.
> 

Sure it is, but it sounded like he was sampling data, then sending it.
Unless he was playing with message queues of some flavor or playing
around with shared memory.

> 
> Then again, Solaris is not a real-time OS.
> 

Truly.  I am curious about how good the realtime scheduling is though.


Gregm

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