Wolfgang, >I'm not exaclty sure I really understand what you are asking for. >Isn't sometimes missing the deadlines what the "soft" is standing >for? ;-)
I'm certainly not the one who would attempt to define the distinction between hard and soft real-time requirements (beyond the obvious notion of an absolute deterministic and an average response time). Just used that term casually as we wanted to meet application deadlines that were in order of seconds with some small room for a response variation (+/- milliseconds). What I referred to as "missed deadlines" were slips in order of +/- 20 seconds. This was way out of line. Do you know if sysstat RPM is available for PPC? It'd be nice to have tools like sar and iostat for debugging my problem. Regards, Adam
