site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) Thank you Brian, Regards, Alejandro -- Alejandro Palencia Open Studio Networks +34 667 440 770 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... I imagine that the memory allocation calls are protected with a mutex. The question if any read/write operation in memory must wait for the same mutex, because the real-time threads do not perform any memory allocations at all. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com