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Subj : Re: Solaris real-time thread capabilities
To   : comp.unix.solaris,comp.programming.threads
From : Casper H.S. Dik
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 11:01 am

capnwhit@yahoo.com writes:

>Hello Andrew, Thanks for the reply... I will talk to my sysadmin and
>post a reply with any "suspicious" 3rd-party stuff that may be screwing
>up realtime response... To my knowledge it's as close as
>"out-of-the-box" as it gets... By the way, buried somewhere in my
>lengthy opening post was the fact that I was running Solaris 8. I
>haven't tried my full test suite against Solaris 9, but a simple while
>loop testing the latency of "gethrtime()" showed that Solaris 9 was no
>better than Solaris 8.

Did you perhaps have printf statements inside the loop?  Then you're
measuring printf latency which is *much* higher.

Casper
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