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- From: aj3u@larch.cs.virginia.edu (Asim Jalis)
- Subject: Re: How Accurate Is The System Clock
- In-Reply-To: mmcohen@cats.ucsc.edu's message of 24 Dec 1992 00:47:04 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:31:37 GMT
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- I am the person who originally asked the timing question. Thanks
- to all the people who have responded. Unfortunately, I am not
- sure I have found the complete answer to my question. People
- have not addressed the multi-process environment, concentrating
- only on the accuracy of the physical clock.
-
- What I am concerned about is not the accuracy of the clock, so
- much as the length of the delay between calling the time function
- and getting a response. This delay could be produced if the
- scheduler unschedules my process before the clock daemon has
- responded to its query, or it could be produced if the clock
- daemon was woken when the clock interrupt occurred because the
- cpu was doing something else that was important, or for some
- other reason arising out of the multi-process environment.
-
- Testing could be used to get a general idea of how large this
- delay can be. However, I want to get more confidence about this.
-
- (1) Do the specifications of the operating system provide some
- kind of a guarantee about timing accuracy in its multi-process
- environment? (2) Is the code of the operating system public
- domain? (3) If not, then is the scheduler's design similar enough
- to Unix so that Unix sources can be studied for an answer to my
- problem.
-
- Any help much appreciated.
-
-
- Asim Jalis.
-