From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750953AbWDMQLI (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:11:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751051AbWDMQLI (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:11:08 -0400 Received: from pproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.166.180]:58647 "EHLO pproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750953AbWDMQLH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:11:07 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TW8KPIhcTwWGvToQKQ7CVDRH8E9Y+ze1+UPF3e7Ao+zUk+kXVm3IzRz6XOekZPTg5N9L0mkv430q5fT9gXyXaTMslI/VK9O9Y7gc9tSJQ7IYIEj3oRBAKMz93EZ+yCL+bVbmM5tWu4iR1DnubOz7Doktu54hMxlu4Hw6bGes5vc= Message-ID: <728201270604130911y4adf9967kd38712e731161074@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:11:06 -0500 From: "Ram Gupta" To: "Andreas Mohr" Subject: Re: select takes too much time Cc: "linux mailing-list" In-Reply-To: <20060413153028.GA26480@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <728201270604130801l377d7285y531133ee9ee56e8c@mail.gmail.com> <20060413153028.GA26480@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 4/13/06, Andreas Mohr wrote: > Hi, > > > Now if you have issues with select() taking too long, then I'd say tough > luck, that's life, other processes seem more important than y > > Or, to put it differently, select() doesn't have realtime guarantees, i.e. > there's no way for you to boldly assume that once select() times out > your process will continue to run instantly within microseconds. I was not expecting it to run instantly within microseconds but 1 second seemed to me too much