Re: Scheduler fixes

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 7 Jul 1998 20:43:20 +0200

> Arbitary timers, e.g. for network applications in case a connect() takes
> to long or other timeouts. Using the select() timeout is a nice alternative
> to alarm()

Of course, but I was talking about short-delay timers causing the apps
to consume lots of CPU time even if they are idle.

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"System going down at 5 pm to install scheduler bug."


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