Re: latency error (~2ms) with nanosleep

[Chris Friesen]

quade wrote:
> Playing around with the (simple) measurement of latency-times
> I noticed, that the systemcall "nanosleep" has always a minimal
> latency from about ~2ms (haven't run it all night, so...). It
> seems to be a systematical error.

Known issue.  The x86 interrupt usually has a period of slightly less 
than a ms.  It will therefore generally add nearly a whole ms to ensure 
that it does not ever wait for *less* than specified.

Chris
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