I have updated the blogpost to hopefully provide a better description of the
situation:

http://blog.gerhards.net/2009/06/high-peformance-low-precision-time-api.html

Rainer

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron Wiebe
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:56 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] high-performance, low-precision time API under
linux?
> 
> I'm slightly confused - whats wrong with gettimeofday()?  It may be
> higher precision, but it still
> gives you the ability to find the nearest second with a few extra
operations.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Rainer
> Gerhards<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am having a hard time finding a suitable-fast but tickles solution to
> > obtaining low-precision time API under Linux. Please read here:
> >
> >
http://blog.gerhards.net/2009/06/high-peformance-low-precision-time-api.html
> >
> > If I don't find a better solution, I'll probably be forced to run
rsyslogd
> on
> > a tick, which would not be a good thing from a power consumption point of
> > view.
> >
> > Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rainer
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