On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 08:19:42AM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 00:47 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure at least one distro will go with HZ<300 real soon now > >> ;-). > >> > > > > Any idea what their official recommendation for people running apps that > > require the 1ms sleep resolution is? Something along the lines of "Get > > bent"? > > MPlayer is using /dev/rtc and was running smooth for me since the good > old 2.4 days.
VMware also uses /dev/rtc. So is NTP, which is needed when time drifts. But they can't use /dev/rtc simultanously, as it's single-open device. So running ntpd denies vmware and mplayer access to RTC. Bummer. -- Tomasz Torcz There exists no separation between gods and men: [EMAIL PROTECTED] one blends softly casual into the other.
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