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... is the minimum timeslice interval 5ms? I'm writing a program that needs
a routine to be run every 1ms for a period of time. I did this by setting
it as the timeslice handler, but then I needed to hack the OS sources, thus
making it incompatibile with everyone else. If there's a good reason, then
why not let a user function be called every n milliseconds?
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| Nick, Setting the timeslice to a low number (5ms is fairly low), negetively effects overall system performance. Time used by the operating system for task switching is taken away from applications. If a switch takes .5ms (for example) and you switch (...) (22 years ago, 21-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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