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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

two weeks ago I did a Futex testing and timing program that with multiple threads uses as semaphores some coarsely carved homebrew functions based on atomic functions, pthread_mutex from glibc, and System 5 semaphores.

I'll send the source code on request.

-Michael