{"id":575,"date":"2012-08-09T09:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gdsys.de\/en\/?p=575"},"modified":"2012-08-10T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T07:40:42","slug":"kvm-terms-its-latency-when-dinosaurs-dont-notice-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gdsys.de\/en\/2012\/08\/09\/kvm-terms-its-latency-when-dinosaurs-dont-notice-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"KVM basics: latency is when dinosaurs don’t notice anything"},"content":{"rendered":"

The term latency comes from the Latin word \u201clatens<\/em>\u201d = \u201chidden\u201d. What\u2019s meant here is the time between cause and effect, between stimulus and reaction, also called response or delay time.<\/p>\n

Latency – a simple but demonstrative experiment:<\/h2>\n

\"Latency<\/a>Let\u2019s take a standard dinosaur, model brontosaurus, from the Upper Jurassic. Length: between 21 and 36 metres from head to tail, a cute little animal weighing 30 to 35 tons.<\/p>\n

Now imagine a Stone Age man, a hunter, model\u2026well there weren\u2019t any models back than. But then, this is only an example. Add a nice sharp stone weighing another ton.<\/p>\n

And now it gets interesting: The hunter takes the stone (yes, he can lift it, remember it\u2019s all hypothetical) and throws it on the dinosaur\u2019s tail.<\/p>\n

The information about the pain runs extremely fast through the nervous system of our brontosaurus, takes a few bends up the back, spirals around the vertebra and finally reaches the brain stem where it is processed by the \u201cpain centre\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two minutes later, the dinosaur says: \u201cOww\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hand-eye coordination vs. stone-dinosaur coordination<\/h2>\n

That\u2019s how you have to imagine latency. Unfortunately, when dealing with KVM, we don\u2019t have as much time as our hypothetical dinosaur. And by the way: The Stone Age hunter didn\u2019t escape him. A different type of latency \u2026<\/p>\n

With KVM, the latency period is important when it comes to hand-eye coordination, meaning when using a mouse to operate a computer via KVM extender or KVM matrix switch, for example. Here, users aren’t supposed to notice a delay between moving the mouse and the corresponding reaction on screen. And by \u201cnot noticing\u201d we\u2019re talking about delays of a twentieth of a second. There might be experienced users who notice delays under this value and thus far away from the stone-dinosaur coordination.<\/p>\n

Tongue-in-cheek,\"Sully<\/a><\/p>\n

Sully, your KVM wingman<\/p>\n

By the way: No dinosaur was harmed during this blog post!<\/p>\n

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