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Date:      Mon, 31 Mar 1997 15:34:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Glenn Beach <gbeach@cybernet.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Internal Clock
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970331153350.2402I-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <333F6EF4.7DE7@cybernet.com>

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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Glenn Beach wrote:

> I was referred to this e-mail by Peter da Siva at a BSD FAQ.  He
> suggested that I ask you the following question:
> 
> How can I make time measurements in increments smaller than the clock
> tick?  Specifically, I am running BSD on a Pentium PC which has 128
> clock ticks per second.  Is there any way to improve the resolution?

Ask hackers@freebsd.org about high-resolution timers.  There is better
than the clock IRQ, I'd hope.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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