From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,71d1e36fcaaa9b90 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-11 13:16:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!uunet!ash.uu.net!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Help with anormal pausing of program References: <3EE73D2B.4010502@yahoo.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.234.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1055362603 12.234.13.56 (Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:16:43 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:16:43 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 20:16:43 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39007 Date: 2003-06-11T20:16:43+00:00 List-Id: > > The problem is that I've detected that some (many) of these tasks are > > being stopped for unusual long times, after some running time. It seems > > I had the same problem. It was becouse of wrong result from > QueryPerformcnceCounter Win32 API call on some hardware configurations. > GNAT for Win32 is counting time by using QueryPerformcnceCounter call. >... > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B274323 See also www.adapower.com/articles/gnatclockfix.html That, IIRC, was a fix to Gnat 3.14p They released 3.15p with a different correction, which had a bug in it (see comp.lang.ada "Re: ANN: GNAT 3.15p binary for OS/2 available")