Hi,
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:17:54 -0800, Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> said:
> I did a very simple timing experiement: measure the interval between
> two consequtive calls to schedule() function.
> Under light load situation, the maximum interval is around 10ms which is
> the time slicing interval. However, if I increase the load (actually I
> was running NIST POSIX test suite), the maximum interval could go
> up to 210ms.
> Is this possbile?
That's correct behaviour. If you have a user process running
continually, then the kernel will just let it keep running until it
exhausts its timeslice. The kernel will only reschedule if another
event occurs to wake up a higher priority process.
--Stephen
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