Re: Low Latency Patch

From: Gregory Maxwell (greg@linuxpower.cx)
Date: Sat Jul 01 2000 - 15:27:41 EST


On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Khimenko Victor wrote:

> Perhaps. I doubt it in Windows case, though. I've seen quite a few times
> how Windows just started to do something deep inside it it and stopped to
> respond for few seconds altogether. So how ANYONE can even talk about
> latency mesuared in MILLIseconds, not in SECONDS for that beast is beyond
> me.

The cases where windows does this is usually during console user
intervention i.e. the 'user caused it', of course it should never happen,
but people can tolerate it because they can work around it. Stock linuxes
latency spikes seem much more random to j.random.luser.

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