Subj : Re: Solaris real-time thread capabilities
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Friesen
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 05:53 pm

capnwhit@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hello Eric, Thanks a lot for your reply! Code sample coming up... I
> basically kept track of the maximum latency between t1 and t2 (as shown
> in my while loop on my initial post)... the average latency was about
> 1000 ns (over a 5 minute period) but the max latency was 323,000,000!
> I'll post the sample code shortly...

You might try building some kind of histogram with buckets, as it would 
give more information.  If you have one or two samples where the max 
latency is really high, it will seriously throw off your average.

A single point where you've got a 323ms worst-case delay isn't actually 
all that bad for most purposes.  This may actually be typical for 
solaris--do you have any reason to expect better?

Chris

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