Re: resolution..

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 09:26:03 -0400

arni@snafu.Rutgers.EDU wrote:
>
> Hi,
> The timer resolution on Linux with i386 is 10ms..
>
> If I want a finer resolution.. how do I achieve that..??

10ms is the linux HZ value (one "jiffie").

You could bump up the HZ value, as many folks have done,
to say.. 1000 or 1024 to achieve near-1ms scheduling/timer resolution.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com


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