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[vdr] Re: Transfer mode



Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:

> i doubt, that any value smaller than 10000 would make any difference.
> cause the resolution of usleep is limited to the 100HZ kernel sheduler
> clock, 10ms is the minimum time usleep waits for the next timeslice. but
> i could be wrong. maybe the kernel reshedules the process, for faster
> io. does anybody know for sure?

Even worse, if you're running as root, the kernel does a busy wait
for small values of usleep...

Tom



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