yes, it looks at a fine-grained clock, usually a cycle counter provided by the CPU for this purpose, to aggregate total on-cpu time for each process.
yes, it looks at a fine-grained clock, usually a cycle counter provided by the CPU for this purpose, to aggregate total on-cpu time for each process.
I think a lot of modern kernels are “tickless” - they don’t use a timeslice timer, and only context switch on IO interrupt, process yield, or when timeouts are specifically requested (including capping cpu-bound processes). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickless_kernel
Probably dedicated vector/tensor coprocessors these days - which don’t have to work with your monitor layout or desktop setup!
Ah, I read the requestor as wanting to disallow body text.
The opposite of that request, yes.
More policy and culture than implementation. Rarely see pages of links to mass media sites on your average phpBB, though.
There’s no way to be viable against a heavily government-subsidized competitor who operates in a country with little to no labor, environmental, or safety regulation.