Re: [rtl] Testing standard Linux real time behavior

2002-02-03 Thread Cassia Yuri Tatibana
Yes! I did, and I saw.. the time amount measured increases crazyly!!! But, this instance reported.. seems to be caused by sthing particular.. always happens near by the same instance.. could it be what?? Anything? Could be an application bug? A nanosleep bug? No clue for that at all?? .. it

Re: [rtl] Bidirectional RTFifo between Realtime threads?

2002-02-03 Thread Ish Rattan
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Philip Reetz wrote: Right now every time I read from the fifo after writing into it my computer crashes and my guess is that is because the fifo is unidirectional. So, use two rtfifos? -ishwar -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe rtl | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR

Re: [rtl] Testing standard Linux real time behavior

2002-02-03 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Well, Victor pretty much spelled it out right: Linux doesn't give you any scheduling guarantees. It was designed to be a best case OS and does a pretty good job at it too. For real-time, however, there are a couple of areas in the kernel that don't help. The main one I can think of is the VM

Re: [rtl] Testing standard Linux real time behavior

2002-02-03 Thread Ish Rattan
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Cassia Yuri Tatibana wrote: As pointed out Linux is a general purpose OS, hence, any statement made for its realtime behavior is meaningless. Could be an application bug? A nanosleep bug? No clue for that at all?? .. it is just curiosity! It is difficult to make a guess.