Re: Can't sleep less than 20 ms

Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz)
Mon, 1 Jan 1990 09:34:15 +0100


Hi!

> I know Linux on i386 has a timer resolution of 10 ms, but
> why I can't sleep for 10 ms, I can only sleep at
> interval of 20 , 30, 40 ... ms.
>
> This what happpends
>
> usleep ( <= 10*1000) will sleep for 20 ms
> usleep ( <10*1000 <= 20*1000) will sleep for 30 ms
> usleep ( <20*1000 <= 30*1000) will sleep for 40 ms
>
> I'm runing 2.2.10.

I notice your address is @lucent.com. What about winmodem docs? If you
promise to give one copy to me, than I'll tell you: set HZ in
include/asm/param.h to 1000 and recompile kernel. It should make it 2ms
instead of 20 ms.

Pavel
PS: And if you don't promise, I'll tell you, anyway :-).

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