CPU Clocks and Clock Interrupts, and Their Effects on Schedulers (2015)

By Boris Landoni on February 13, 2019

Instructions to sleep for a second almost never result in precisely one second’s sleep. Bob Schmidt walks us through the mechanics of why.
Suppose you are walking down the hallway of your office, and a Summer Intern (SI) intercepts you and asks, …….
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Boris Landoni is the technical manager of Open-Electronics.org. Skilled in the GSM field, embraces the Open Source philosophy and its projects are available to the community.

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