Re: High res timer?

From: Andre Eisenbach
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 16:46:58 EST


2005/5/10, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Here's what I get if I try to nanosleep for 5 secs (for testing):
> >
> > -> 5.009952 s
> >
> > The .009952 part varies, but is very close to that usually.
>
> Is this a 2.4 kernel? The resolution on 2.6 should be 1ms, not ~10ms.

Yes indeed, that was a 2.4 kernel. On 2.6 (different machine though) I get:

-> 5.001064 s

Thanks,
Andre
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