I ran a very small real time application whose sole purpose was to
toggle
a bit of the parallel port every 100us. 

In the long term I will use this to schedule events etc etc..

The application I am working on also has need for the joystick.

When I ran up the current joystick driver for linux, and in particular
the
joystick driver for the microsoft (cringe) sidewinder it caused the
system
to lock up. If I slowed the rate of the real time process. to one toggle
every 2ms
the joystick operates normally.


I used the example program for latency testing for the parallel port
along with 
'jstest' an example that is packaged with the current joystick driver
for linux.


Can anyone explain why the high rate of the real time process affects
what the joystick,
a common garden variety process is doing?

Andrew
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