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Subject: Re: UNIX question: WaitForSingleObject() under IRIX/Linux

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:17:55 09/25/02

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On September 25, 2002 at 11:49:25, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On September 25, 2002 at 08:10:06, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>i cannot use select() at all as i limit myself to  < 128 processor
>>partitions then.
>
>Does WaitForSingleObject or WaitForMultipleObjects allow you to use more than
>128 processors?
>
>>also i have no idea how to get it to work and whether it can do
>>it 400 times a second instantly.
>
>See the problems Microsoft causes? They always have to be different (in a bad
>evil kind of way).


The very concept of synchronizing > 128 processes with such a system call
defies any sort of logic I can think of.  Doing it hundreds of times a second
only guarantees horrible performance.  Doing this every now and then would
be ok.  But not "400 times a second".  There are other ways to eliminate that
kind of stuff...



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