Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jul 1999 18:59:27 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Important patch to fix select! |
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Steve Underwood wrote: > Basically what this type of application needs is regular repetitive > scheduling. A "wake me up at XXHz intervals" facility would make a > lot of these types of applications smooth and efficient.
I would imagine making select() accurate (or some other call) would be just as easy and far more generally useful.
> You would need some complexity to deal with a heavily loaded > machine. I think simply skipping some scheduling events on a loaded > machine would give the most tolerable result for most applications. In > this case it would help the application if it were informed how many > scheduling events have been missed since the last scheduling.
gettimeofday() is good enough for this.
-- Jamie
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