On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Mohit Kalra wrote: > 2. When a process is running IT IS possible that an interrupt is > received. Does the time needed for handling the interrupt taken from > the process time slice? If yes , is it justified that the time slice > of a process may be consumed by the kernel for handling interrupts > even though the process has nothing to do with them. Yes, the time spent in interrupts is deducted from the process' time slice, but in practice this is not a problem because if the system spends 10% of its time on interrupts, _all_ applications will run 10% slower and the load is divided evenly. regards, Rik -- DMCA, SSSCA, W3C? Who cares? http://thefreeworld.net/ http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/
