Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Ah, finally some explanation that makes sence! Thanks Micha, your > modified demo does in fact make Linux switch between threads. I also > tried the Sleep(0) you mentiond in the Sort Demo. Sleep() didn't do > the trick, but using the BurnCPU() method from Demo1 did.
Ok, maybe Sleep(0) in sysutils has to use the sched_yield syscall for linux. This may be a feature request to be reported in bug tracker IMHO. > Where can I read more about the timeslices to threads under Linux. It > obviously works vastly different to Windows (and FreeBSD as someone > pointed out). This sounds like an interesting topic and something > work understanding. After all, it gave me enough headaches and a > false positive - thinking it is a bug. http://kerneltrap.org/node/517/print is an interview with one of the authors, Ingo Molnar. Search for 'timeslice length' if you don't want to read it all :-). Micha _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
