Re: Timing on your Dual Pentium II

Teodor Iacob (theo@lbi.ro)
Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:51:35 +0300 (EEST)


On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Michael Mess wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I saw that you have a Dual Pentium II machine, too.
>
> Could you please try out, how long a
>
> sleep 10
>
> lasts? On my machine it lasts 55 seconds. Strange, isn't it?
> To try out, please use a separate clock, because when I try out things
> like
>
> date; sleep 10 ; date
>
> I will get a difference of 10 seconds between the dates, in spite of the
> fact it needs 55 seconds to finish...
>
> I have got a Dual Pentium II 400 with linux 2.2.6 SMP kernel.
> My mainboard is an Asus P2B-DS.
I have a Dual PII 400 with 2.2.6 SMP and the sleep 10 worked just fine (
like in exactly 10 seconds )
>
> Greetings, Michael
>
>
> PS: Maybe, my machine is really fast, but I don't believe in
> relativistic effects... ;-)
>
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