alarm() accuracy

[Neil Cornell]

I have an application that uses alarm() to generate SIGALARM every 
second.  I am seeing that the signal handler is sometimes late by as much 
as 500ms when the system is under load.  What kind of performance should 
I expect to see from alarm().  Is there a better way to do this?
 
TIA,
Neil
 



		
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