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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:32:01 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys time.h src/sys/kern kern_time.c 
Message-ID:  <1647.1133083921@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Nov 2005 00:55:18 GMT." <200511270055.jAR0tIkF032480@repoman.freebsd.org> 

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In message <200511270055.jAR0tIkF032480@repoman.freebsd.org>, Robert Watson writes:

>  This offers a minimum update rate of 1/HZ,
>  but in practice will often be more frequent due to the frequency of
>  time stamping in the kernel:

Not quite...

The precision is guaranteed to be no worse than 1msec, and is unlikely to
be significantly better.

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