Yes, a mutex can be taken during memory allocation. You can use the
_noblock variants of the allocators but you have to be prepared for a
NULL return. I addition, the _noblock variants will always return NULL
when trying to allocate over 8KB (at least last time I checked which
was Tiger).
On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:26 PM, alejandro wrote:
Terry,
Thank you for your answer. It has been a good direction. You are
right, disk reads (invalidating caches or otherwise) are not the
problem.
After a lot of tests I have found that any memory allocations done
by a non-realtime thread cause the blocking (about 10mS) in the
realtime threads. Because the problem arises very unfrequently
(average every hour) the testing is very slow. So my question is, Is
there any system-wide locking mechanism when a malloc is performed?
If this is the case, I will create my own memory pool for this
purpose.
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