Re: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De>]

Hello again!

> > Yes, I agree. I can't see why Sven sees context switches as such a
> > problem. The only problematic thing is that the MiNT's scheduling timer
> > granularity is quite low (max 25 context switches per second, correct me
> > if I am wrong). So perhaps, before anything else, we should increase the
> > granularity to at least 50 context switches per second, and just then
> > start to complain that IPC is slow... :-)
>
> Currently it depends on the time slice setting. A value of 1 means 20ms
> per time slice, 2 means 40ms (2 * 20) per time slice and so on.

Btw. real Unix systems like Linux, BSD and other are much more
conservative about the time slice (under BSD it's something like 100ms).


Tschuess
   ...Frank

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