In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/17/2006
at 09:08 AM, Clark Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Listed below is a question we emailed to many of our customers and
>readers last week. We also thought it might be a good discussion
>item for this forum. You may send comments to us using the address
>shown below, or it may be better to just reply to the list.
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that an SRB is *not* "an
authorized subtask"; it is a completely different type of dispatching
mechanism.
>we (along with others in the industry) have always recommended that
>these two measurements be combined and charged at the same rate
>for billing purposes.
I disagree, because the SRB time is not under the user's control and
is highly variable.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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