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16 years ago

Long Delays with 300 Hz Linux Timer

Hello, Here's an odd problem that we would like to understand better: We have occasionally been experiencing extremely long unexplained thread delays in our application. The delays are about 7...
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16 years ago

Hello

I'm quite sensitive susceptible to this kind of problems because I'm experiencing a similar one.

My problem is with a 1000 Hz timer not working against a 100 Hz timer working with a threaded application. To be precise, even with 100 Hz timer the reactivity of the system seems worse than older kernel versions (unchanged application source code, unchanged FPGA project).

Dear mdn, just to understand if we are using the same software, which distribution are you using?

mine: uClinux from nios2-linux-20090730.tar with 2.6.30 kernel (problems were detected also with the previous tar.gz with 2.6.28 kernel)