Re: Possible spin-problem in nanosleep()

[Robert Hancock]

Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Is this a known problem? Is it going to be fixed? In a possibly
> related note, the following:
>
> main()
> {
>     for(;;)
>         sched_yield();
> }
>
> .... is shown to be spinning, by 'top' not sleeping. This, even though
> it is giving up its quantum continuously.

If no other processes are runnable, this will still use 100% of the CPU.

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