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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:14:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/13644
Message-ID:  <200001240214.VAA45195@rtfm.newton>
In-Reply-To: <20000123200807.A19917@dan.emsphone.com> from Dan Nelson at "Jan 23, 2000 08:08:07 pm"

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Dan Nelson once stated:

=In the last episode (Jan 23), Mikhail Teterin said:
=> =FreeBSD  is clearly  not capable  of hard  real-time. If  I remember
=> =correctly, neither are  any of the operating systems  from which you
=> =quoted man pages. That makes *all* of those man pages inaccurate.
=> 
=> In other  words,   we  found   a  flaw  in   the  most   (all?)  Unix
=> Inimplementations? cluding FreeBSD. Alright.
=
=If you want to call it a flaw, then yes. The kernel always has priority
=over user processes.

I understand.  And this will also  happen in case of  a simple printf().
What I see, however, with select()  is that it _consistently_ takes 9-10
msecs longer  then specified  to return. On  an idle  machine... Someone
mentioned, that the  number of ticks is, actually,  rounded up. Perhaps,
it should be rounded down?

	-mi


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