From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 24 12:15:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.blarg.net (lists.blarg.net [206.124.128.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF77837B405 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thig.blarg.net (thig.blarg.net [206.124.128.18]) by lists.blarg.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA04BCE8; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([206.124.139.115]) by thig.blarg.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA32228; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:15:21 -0700 Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9OJEe144659; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:14:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@blarg.net) To: "fabio lg" Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD References: <001601c15bc9$60085f00$0200a8c0@proradio.com.br> From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 24 Oct 2001 12:14:37 -0700 In-Reply-To: <001601c15bc9$60085f00$0200a8c0@proradio.com.br> Message-ID: <6gzo6ghmua.o6g@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "fabio lg" writes: > FreeBSD is real-time plataform????? That depends upon what is meant by "real time". It used to mean to most computer users, a computer to which you didn't have to submit your "jobs" (program run requests) into a batch queue from which it usually did not start running almost immediately. As far as I know, all computers these days are real-time computers by that standard (though they may do batch processing too). But now, it usually means that the user is guaranteed that a specified block of code will run to completion within specified time constraints, usually repetitiously. And FreeBSD and all other general purpose computers are not real-time computers by that standard unless you want to consider a system loaded lightly enough that you can be confident (by experiment and judgement, if not from analysis) that all of your important tasks will complete in the time alloted to them. I'm not sure, but I think the latter would be called "soft real time". There is a "hard real time" in which there are some timer-generated events which guarantee the on-time (within some limits) start and finish of task executions. One has to deal carefully with tasks which might take too long. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message