Subj : Re: Solaris real-time thread capabilities
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.programming.threads
From : Casper H.S. Dik
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 11:03 am

capnwhit@yahoo.com writes:

>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...

Well, *that* is not impossible.  That's because your program was
hit by a context switch and other processes got to work for apparently
a lengthy period of time; and if that meant that you later induced a
page fault, 300ms could easily be explained.

Casper
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