If you have a multicore  machine you should be fine...

On Oct 31, 2012 12:31 AM, "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:
----- Original Message -----

> From: Cyrille Henry <ch@chnry.net>
> To: pd-list@iem.at
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 1:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [PD] firm delay scheduling
>
> hello,
>
> if your problem is detecting when cpu is over 100% so that delay is not acurate,
> then the best solution is some kind of external watchdog.
>
> just send a message every 10 ms to an other software, if this external software
> did not receive anything during the last 20ms, then there is a cpu problem on
> the pd side...
>
>
> the external software can be an other pd, a shell script (using pdreceive, or
> anything else.

How is the second pd going to complete its computations on time when the CPU
is over 100%?

>
> cheers
> c
>
> Le 30/10/2012 18:13, Jean-Marie Adrien a écrit :
>>  Hello
>>  I'm trying to launch security procedures in case of trouble, that will
> respond in less than 250 msec.
>>  The fundamental question is :
>>
>>  Is there an object to schedule an event in the future with firm absolute
> delay ?
>>
>>  {realtime} measures time AFTER the problem (no scheduling)
>>  {del} schedules things but the delay is kind of elastic, depending on the
> CPU load.
>>
>>  thanks
>>  JM
>>
>>
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