Re: select takes too much time

[Michal Schmidt]

linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> It is as though the sleep time is always at least 1000
> microseconds. If this is correct, then there should be some kind of
> warning that the time can't be less than the HZ value, or whatever is
> limiting it.

Of course you can't get lower resolution than 1/HZ, unless you're using 
a kernel with high-res timers. It's always been like that.
But it's not Ram's problem, because he's requesting a timeout of 90ms, 
which is much longer than one tick even with HZ=100.

Michal
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