Hello, I have written a test program which creates 2 processes, both of them do heavy computation and they periodically interrupt each other by signals. Why it takes on average 0.3s on kernel 2.2.14 and 0.1s on kernel 2.4.9 to invoke a signal handler? The reaction time is strangely long. There are no other processes running, each of the two mentioned above gets ~49% CPU. Is the answer same for 2.3 and 2.4? JanuszB - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/