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8 Host Utilities
8.4
tim
Description
The
tim
utility starts the
tim
process that receives periodic tick notification from
tick
processes and handles
protocol timers for all other processes.
Syntax
tim_xxx [-v]
where
xxx
is operating system specific,
lnx
for Linux and
sol
for Solaris versions.
Command Line Options
The
tim
utility supports the following command line options:
•
-v
Show version information.
Example
The
tim
process is typically only started by forking a process using
gctload
by including the following line in
the
system.txt
file:
FORK_PROCESS ./tim_lnx