Try to break while-loop after some time

[Eldastoker]

Hey all together.

This is my first post, so i hope you can help me a lot :). English is not my first language.

I got a while-loop and a time how long it should run, but sometimes it needs too long. In the while-loop i got a function call: runSimulation(). I followed the error 'till i saw, that a function from eclipse-prolog needs too long.

I tried to break the function, when i just got 2 seconds left, but it needs sometimes 6 seconds but i just got 5 for the whole simulation.

Now I want to know: Is there an opportunity to get a timecontrol into or around this while-loop to break it off, when the timelimit is reach?

Thanks in advance,

Eldastoker

[elsaghir]

You can get system time before you enter the while loop and test for time elapsed inside the while loop when it is time you break, gettimeofday(), setitimer() or time()