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 > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com

