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Re: [rtl] RTAI and RTLinux




> > Let's say I have N message buffers in a pool. What if
> > there is no more free buffer?
> 
> Then the design for your hard real
> time system was wrong :-)

Or system reached its limits. It depends on your possibilities and
intentions.
What if amount of incoming data is unpredictable but you have
to process at most as you can with a limited hardware?
Then one can choice a stragegy of survival: throw away unprocessable
data and do some clever. (Plan B: crash and reboot. ;-)

Gabor