[Vm-dev] Linux VM and Delay.

[Craig Latta]

> The Linux kernel refuses (or did the last time I checked) to go to
> sleep in select timeout for < a timeslice; it just returns
> immediately.

     Flow has its own "relinquish physical processor" primitive, which
uses pthread_cond_timedwait(). Works great: proper timing, no undesired
CPU activity. Same code works on MacOSX, too.


-C

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