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 ====== Cyclictest ====== ====== Cyclictest ======
  
-Cyclictest accurately and repeatedly measures the difference between a thread'​s intended wake-up time and the time at which it actually wakes up in order to provide statistics about the system'​s latencies. It can measure latencies in real-time systems caused by the hardware, the firmware, and the operating system.+Cyclictest accurately and repeatedly measures the difference between a thread'​s intended wake-up time and the time at which it actually wakes up from [[https://​man7.org/​linux/​man-pages/​man2/​clock_nanosleep.2.html|clock_nanosleep]] ​in order to provide statistics about the system'​s latencies. It can measure latencies in real-time systems caused by the hardware, the firmware, and the operating system.
  
 The original test was written by Thomas Gleixner (tglx), but several people have subsequently contributed modifications. Cyclictest is currently maintained by Clark Williams and John Kacur and is part of the test suite [[realtime:​documentation:​howto:​tools:​rt-tests|rt-tests]]. The original test was written by Thomas Gleixner (tglx), but several people have subsequently contributed modifications. Cyclictest is currently maintained by Clark Williams and John Kacur and is part of the test suite [[realtime:​documentation:​howto:​tools:​rt-tests|rt-tests]].
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 It can also be interesting to compare with results from other systems that were running loads, using various Cyclictest parameters, and running different real-time and non real-time kernels. These results give a general idea of the order of magnitude that the latencies should be. They also show the effect that different test conditions and parameters can have on the Cyclictest results. It can also be interesting to compare with results from other systems that were running loads, using various Cyclictest parameters, and running different real-time and non real-time kernels. These results give a general idea of the order of magnitude that the latencies should be. They also show the effect that different test conditions and parameters can have on the Cyclictest results.
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-<WRAP rightalign>​[[realtime:​documentation:​howto:​tools:​cyclictest:​result-examples|Read detailed examples of results]]</​WRAP>​ 
  
 ===== Test Design ===== ===== Test Design =====
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