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Cygwin signal bandwidth
- From: Endlisnis <endlisnis at mailc dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:51:34 -0500
- Subject: Cygwin signal bandwidth
While working on a project, I had the need to run a function every
millisecond. So, my first attempt was to fork() and then loop sending a
signal then delaying 1ms. What I found was that a cygwin process can
only recieve about 100 signals/sec before it uses up 100% of the
processor (on a PIII/850MHz).
Is it reasonable for me to conclude that cygwin uses about 8,000,000
cycles to process a single signal, or have I done something wrong?
-Rolf
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