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Re: default behavior for thread overrun

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Originally Posted by RyanCahoon View Post
Can you explain what you mean by task overrun?
Let's say you have a periodic task which is supposed to run once every 10ms, but on the Nth iteration it does not complete in 10ms. That's what I meant by an overrun. Various things could cause this, for example the code waiting for a resource, or being preempted too often by higher priority tasks, or taking an unusual execution path.




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