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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!olivea!charnel!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!kudu!g89r4222 From: g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) Subject: Re: Real-time Unix ? Message-ID: <g89r4222.750015207@kudu> Sender: news@hippo.ru.ac.za (Usenet News Admin) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa References: <28f7bq$3cd@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <28vm9uINNdrd@fred.cs.city.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 17:33:27 GMT Lines: 22 In <28vm9uINNdrd@fred.cs.city.ac.uk> da188@cs.city.ac.uk (A. Khattri) writes: >In article <28f7bq$3cd@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Glen Schaff <glens@space.mit.edu> writes: >>I'm looking for a real-time UNIX Operating system that runs on SUN >>sparcs. I have to acquire data through SUN at 4 Meg/Sec and write to >>disk for sustained periods. I'm concerned that under the standard OS I >>can not completely disable the scheduler, and other backround tasks from >>stealing CPU time during this process. Can I do this using 4.4BSD ? If >>yes, how would I go about obtaining a copy. >I remember reading in BYTE magazine about something called Chrous which is >a real-time kernel? What about Looking at Solaris 2.x 's real-time process scheduling policy. (I haven't looked at it myself.) Geoff. -- ===========================csgr@alpha.ru.ac.za================================ Geoff Rehmet, Parallel Processing Group, | ____ _ o /\ Computer Science Department, | ___ _-\_<, /\/\/\ Rhodes University, RSA. | (*)/'(*) /\/\/\/\/\