On May 26, 2007, at 18:17 , J J wrote:
Well Tim and John had mentioned that a given process gets preemited after around 250 ms
You must have misinterpreted that part. A given process continues to run indefinitely until one of the conditions listed by Nicolas below happens.
- Bert -
On May 26, 2007, at 18:16 , nicolas cellier wrote:
It can be pre-empted
- if the process explicitely yield
- if the process is blocked on a Semaphore
- if a higher priority process is unblocked.