From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from majordomo by infradead.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 126bft-00065P-00 for mtd-list@infradead.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2000 15:51:37 +0000 Received: from out5.prserv.net ([165.87.194.243] helo=prserv.net) by infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1) id 126bfq-00065J-00 for mtd@infradead.org; Fri, 07 Jan 2000 15:51:34 +0000 From: "Dvir Oren" To: MTD Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 17:55:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Hardware RO & delays [DOC2000] In-reply-to: <3875490A.1078B54B@ctam.com.au> Message-Id: Sender: owner-mtd@imladris.demon.co.uk List-ID: > Are you sure it is the DOC drivers ? Could it be something else ? > Highly loaded ethernet network with lots of collisions which forces the > ethernet card to back off it's transmissions ? No. I'm not sure it's the flash. However, these delays don't happen on a standard PC that doesn't have flash (of course, there are several hundred other differences), but it does occur on a "network computer" that has no hard disk and uses flash. > If you are not using a Real Time Operating System (like RT-Linux or > KURT) then you are not guaranteed to have processes run with any > determinism. The system doesn't really need to be real time, it can suffer small delays. --------- Dvir Oren Lucid VON Ltd. Twin Towers 2, Suite 406, P.O.Box 159 35 Jabotinsky street, Ramat-Gan 52511, ISRAEL Tel:+972 3 6137214 Fax:+972 3 6137215 To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe mtd" to majordomo@infradead.org