Re: PROBLEM: select() on TCP socket sleeps for 1 tick even if data

Martin MaD Douda (martin@douda.net)
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 13:26:08 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Michael Lindner wrote:

> data is generated as a result of data received via a select(),
> the next delivery occurs a clock tick later, with the machine
> mostly idle.
^^^^^^^^^^^

The machine is in fact not idle - there is a task running - idle task.
Could the problem be that scheduler does not preempt this task to run
something more useful?

Symptoms seems to show this.

Martin

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