Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: ping fails under 2.1.39 | Date | Mon, 26 May 1997 22:32:00 +0100 (BST) |
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> > bus activity can cause invalid reads/writes during this operation. > Once again, why is not I/O delay done by usleep( good constant )?
Because I/O operations can be bunched, delayed and otherwise scheduled around other I/O cycles - including optimistic PCI fetches
> I thought that linux is wonderfull thing because it can make old, slow > computers do _a lot_ of work again.
Old machines it does work fine on, and Linux does drive the boards to spec - and the original spec not th relaxed spec that some clones dont cope with
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