The problems you're having may not be the problems you think you're having: Results from a latency study of Windows NT

Real-Time Technology and Applications - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 287-292

  Jones, Michael B ^a   Regehr, John ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUTIONARY TALES; INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS; THREAD SCHEDULING; WINDOWS NT;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

MICROSOFT SYSTEMS PRODUCTS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE WINDOWS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032593181     PISSN: 10801812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RTTAS.1999.777681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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