Re: process running slowly, lots of yield() calls ?

On Nov 22, 5:55 am, Mladen Gogala <mgog..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:48:46 +0000, Jonathan Lewis wrote:
> > Would that be true of the PL/SQL lock timer sleep?  In my ignorance of
> > how it actually works I'm imagining silly code that hyperaggressively
> > checks for time slept at a very fine grain.   "I'm ready to run George,
> > oh, ok, I'm yielding, now I'm ready to run George, is it time yet, huh
> > George, huh George, huh?"
>
> If that is the implementation, that would be very, very bad. Usually, OS
> has facilities to signal timer expiration and user programs like oracle
> would implement "alarm clock" type of tricks witg signal handlers.
>
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Watch those attributions! :-)

Thanks guys.

(Strange, for some reason google won't post with Mladen's sig file in the post.)

jg

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