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SubjectRe: [PATCH] O13int for interactivity


Rob Landley wrote:

>On Tuesday 05 August 2003 06:32, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>
>>But by employing the kernel's services in the shape of a blocking
>>syscall, all sleeps are intentional.
>>
>
>Wrong. Some sleeps indicate "I have run out of stuff to do right now, I'm
>going to wait for a timer or another process or something to wake me up with
>new work".
>
>
>
>Some sleeps indicate "ideally this would run on an enormous ramdisk attached
>to gigabit ethernet, but hard drives and internet connections are just too
>slow so my true CPU-hogness is hidden by the fact I'm running on a PC instead
>of a mainframe."
>

I don't quite understand what you are getting at, but if you don't want to
sleep you should be able to use a non blocking syscall. But in some cases
I think there are times when you may not be able to use a non blocking call.

And if a process is a CPU hog, its a CPU hog. If its not its not. Doesn't
matter how it would behave on another system.




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