From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 2 21:31:03 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA21189 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:31:03 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA21173 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 1995 21:30:55 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA32558; Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:25:37 +1000 Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:25:37 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199506030425.OAA32558@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, james@miller.cs.uwm.edu Subject: Re: Interval timer/System clock Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Would it be resonable to propose a faster system clock than 10ms? The >DEC hardware seems to run somewhere around 5ms which would give you an >accurate user level clock at 10ms. I used 200Hz for a long time with no problems (I don't run timed or xntpd). I've used 10000Hz for testing. I think there is little need for faster than 100Hz except for quasi-real-time stuff. Terry's one-shot timers might work better for that. Bruce