>Why do you say it's only a possibility? AFAIK the high res timer patch >works fine on most hardware...
the last person i know to try (it was some time ago) was jesse chappell, and it messed up other things on his system in subtle but noticeable ways. the kernel may also impose limits on user space processes requesting microsleeps, but i don't know if this is actually done with the HRT patch. --p