Date: Sat, 3 Jun 1995 14:25:37 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, james@miller.cs.uwm.edu Subject: Re: Interval timer/System clock Message-ID: <199506030425.OAA32558@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>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
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