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From: fredm@tekgvs.UUCP (Fred Moore)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: how fast is signal handling
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Date: Mon, 27-Aug-84 18:43:31 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 27 18:43:31 1984
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I'm a novice posting to a wizards news group so please have patience with me.

I've been trying to setup communication between processes by having
one catch a particular signal.  Unfortunately this seems to take half of 
forever.  Does it strike anyone out there is upwards of 3/10 of a 
second between the time one process sends the signal and the second process 
grabs the signal and begins handling it?

The 3/10 of a second is real time, but it was measured with the load averages
on our machine  very, very low, other times I obtained ranged up to 3/4 of 
a second during busier times.

Any thoughts wizards?  Please reply via mail.

Fred Moore (tektronix!tekgvs!fredm)