Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:38:08 +0300 (EET DST) | From | "Ruslan V. Brushkoff" <> | Subject | Re: Linux and real time process control (Can't sleep less than 20ms) |
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On Sat, 10 Jul 1999, Dale Amon wrote:
: : Since I happened to be chatting with Richard Gooch : about an area related to timers offline, although : in a different context, I'll toss my ideas into the : fray. : : First, I spent nearly 10 years doing : real time process control type things. : We never used Unix because it lacked the ability : to accurately control time-based events where : you simply could NOT get things out of sequence or : have two events execute at other than a correct : time +/- some delta. Mostly I was not dealing : with life and death... mostly.
Did you try RT-Linux, especially RTAI ? In my turn I can say that only Unix (Linux) I will use in realtime development, because of it reliabilty an predictable behavour.
: : Unix has improved in this, more due to processor : speed and finer time slicing, but I'd still be : leary of controlling seriously critical stuff : with it (go ahead, convince me :-) :
The processor speed doesn't matter. You can do hard realtime on 486 machines.
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Rus
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