From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 8 23:32: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (Thingol.KryptoKom.DE [194.245.91.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B703D14E59 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 1999 23:31:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from klein@KryptoKom.DE) Received: (from root@localhost) by Thingol.KryptoKom.DE (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA27313 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:29:34 +0200 Received: from cirdan.kryptokom.de by KryptoWall via smtpp (Version 1.2.0) id kwa27311; Fri Jul 09 10:29:28 1999 Received: from borg.kryptokom.de (borg.Kryptokom.DE [192.168.6.132]) by Cirdan.KryptoKom.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20352 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:40:02 +0200 Received: from kryptokom.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by borg.kryptokom.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA04619 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 08:54:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from klein@kryptokom.de) Message-ID: <37859C90.322349BD@kryptokom.de> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:54:08 +0200 From: Thomas Klein X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-19980804-SNAP i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: question: delay of a context - switch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Dose anyone know how long a the kernel is busy with context switching (beetween two processes) ? Has anyone tested this yet? I estimate of about 7 usec duration for that, (on a Pentium 400) but I think that's to long. Regards Thomas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message