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Hi all: I have a user mode application which uses nanosleep in a while(1) loop, unfortunately it brings a huge amount of local time interrupts, which greatly damage the application ...
  1. 10-09-2011 #1
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    HELP: nanosleep causes huge amount of local timer interrupts

    Hi all:
    I have a user mode application which uses nanosleep in a while(1) loop, unfortunately it brings a huge amount of local time interrupts, which greatly damage the application performance, I don't know why nanosleep can cause this large increase on local timer interrupts?? How should I do to eliminate this unwanted interrupts. Thanks for your help.
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    Every call to nanosleep() will generate one or more interrupts in the kernel. Doing this in a while(true) loop is guaranteed to bring your system to its knees... What are you trying to accomplish. Tell us that, and maybe we can help you do it in a bit less intrusive manner.
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