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Are we really chasing the right issue?

Are we really chasing the right issue?

Posted Feb 27, 2012 10:50 UTC (Mon) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Are we really chasing the right issue? by IkeTo
Parent article: Short sleeps suffering from slack

That would depend on whether your program breaking when the delay is 10 seconds instead of 1 second is justifiable. If it is, you'll just have to document that the user needs to turn down the timer slack setting on their system. If it isn't, fix your buggy program.


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Are we really chasing the right issue?

Posted Feb 27, 2012 15:51 UTC (Mon) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059) [Link]

"If it is, you'll just have to document that the user needs to turn down the timer slack setting on their system."

So a single systemwide knob has to be fixed by the user's sysadmin? That doesn't seem appropriate, just to retain previous capability.

Are we really chasing the right issue?

Posted Feb 27, 2012 19:05 UTC (Mon) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

it's not a "single systemwide knob", it's a per-cgroup knob

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