FreeBSD has a "real-time" priority scheduler. I believe it's soft real-time, and I'm not sure how well it works. But the docs that I read the other week say that your process gets priority at all times. Hmm, not sure about things like vm and paging though.
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" Download your free copy: http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices_ebook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muralidar Chakravarthi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] rtos > We need all the luck we can get, In March 2004 when we were testing the > calif. We found that a majority of our problems with linux was the fact > that some of the custom drivers we wrote do not get a chance to run. The > other processes take up most of the CPU time. > > Has anyone here used / experienced libRT ?. We have been looking at that > for sometime now. > > Regards, > Murali > > > > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 07:55, John Hebert wrote: > > I think you need to be looking beyond patching desktop > > and server distros to do RTOS. Look at the embedded > > open source RTOSs for a possible solution. > > > > Here's a google query that turned up some interesting > > results: > > http://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+real+time+operating+system&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official > > > > Here's a nice article from the results of the query > > above that seems to offer a good intro to RTOSs: > > http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1155/sam0101k/0101k.htm > > > > Good luck! We are gunning for CajunBot!!! > > > > John > > > > --- Mat Branyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, they have switched to gentoo (I am not > > > actually working on > > > anything yet, just doing research). They are > > > working on minimizing the > > > system as much as possible. > > > > > > As far as what they need, All I really know, is that > > > they need to have > > > the code run an algorithm every 10 ms (or some such > > > number). > > > > > > Maybe just a way to poll the system clock, or use > > > it(the clock) to tell > > > some process to wake up after so much time has > > > passed. However we do > > > it... we need a process to run so many times a > > > second, so we can make > > > sure that nothing gets hung up waiting. > > > > > > I also might have absolutely no idea what I am > > > talking about. > > > > > > --mat > > > > > > Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > > True. I think that is for soft real-time though. > > > Mat, what are your actual > > > > requirements? Do you know yet? > > > > > > > > --- > > > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > > > > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > > > > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > > > > > Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and > > > UNIX Servers" > > > > Download your free copy: > > > > http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices_ebook.htm > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Adam Melancon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:42 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] rtos > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >>I know you are using redhat in cajunbot, aren't > > > there realtime patches > > > >>for the kernel now? > > > >>I thought I saw something on /. about that a while > > > back. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:24:07 -0500, Mat Branyon > > > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > > > >>>Anyone out there have some experience with linux > > > rtos? Or any other > > > >>>rtos for that matter? > > > >>> > > > >>>We are looking at using a real time system for > > > cajunbot, and was > > > >>>wondering if linux had the capabilities we needed > > > and whatnot. > > > >>> > > > >>>--mat > > > >>> > > > >>>_______________________________________________ > > > >>>General mailing list > > > >>>[email protected] > > > > > >>>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>-- > > > >>Adam Melancon > > > >>Work: http://www.vermilion.lib.la.us > > > >>Personal: http://www.melancon.org > > > >> > > > >>_______________________________________________ > > > >>General mailing list > > > >>[email protected] > > > > > >>http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > General mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Y! 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