Re: [tlug] using rusage

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2008-06-20 08:38 +0900 (Fri), Josh Glover wrote:
>   
> > Therefore, nanosleep() pauses always for at least the specified time,
> > however it can take up to 10 ms longer than specified until the
> > process becomes runnable again.
> >     
>
> does not actually mean that, once you're runnable, you'll actually run.
> On a very busy system, it could easily be hundreds of ms., or even even
> thousands, if you're swapped out, after that time that you actually run
> again.
>   

Well from a piratical point of view, setting up a low latency kernel and 
running the process in realtime priority on decent hardware should give 
you pretty good results but obviously you should use a realtime OS if 
timing is critical.

Edward