But there are a myriad ways to block a program for a short period of time. For one thing, the thread scheduler in a busy program could easily starve the heartbeat for a short period of time.
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Fournier, Camille F. < [email protected]> wrote: > But for things like context switching, even relatively low timeouts should > not cause a problem.
