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Re: [MiNT] XaAES / GEM memory issues
Hello!
> I can't believe MiNT only does context switches 25 times per second in
> the case of synchronization/IPC/IO. That would be terrible!
No, that don't work this way.
A process get the processor for maximal a time slice. If the time slice
expires mint schedules (and the process priority is lowered because the
process is CPU intensive).
But most process are I/O based and are waiting for something to happen.
Also such I/O based processes give up the processor if they wait (this
increase their priority). So you get a much higehr rate of context
switchs (as long as something happen). If nothing happen all processes are
waiting and the CPU idle (except there run CPU based job).
Tschuess
...Frank
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