Re: timing question

2001-08-09 Thread Rolf Neugebauer
Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks to all for the help with the timing question. Increasing the hz to > 400 (in param.c) allowed for granularity of 5ms, which is what we needed. > For those as unknowing as I was about unix timing, I ran across the > following url which explained why

Re: timing question

2001-08-08 Thread Terry Lambert
Rolf Neugebauer wrote: > NB. for achieving higher timer resolutions you might find it > interesting to look at Soft-Timers at Rice [2]. Events are scheduled > at the usual timer interrupt frequency but the time wheels are also > checked at system-call and other interrupt times, thus, depending o

RE: timing question

2001-08-08 Thread Jeff Behl
thanks to all for the help with the timing question. Increasing the hz to 400 (in param.c) allowed for granularity of 5ms, which is what we needed. For those as unknowing as I was about unix timing, I ran across the following url which explained why a setting of 400hz allows for a max resolution

Re: timing question

2001-08-08 Thread Rolf Neugebauer
"Weiguang SHI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: timing question > >Da

Re: timing question

2001-08-07 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Weiguang SHI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010807 11:11] wrote: > > > > >From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: timin

Re: timing question

2001-08-07 Thread Weiguang SHI
>From: Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: timing question >Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:49:55 -0500 > >* Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: timing question

2001-08-07 Thread Terry Lambert
Jeff Behl wrote: > please excuse and direct me to the right place if this isn't the appropriate > place to post this sort of question > > we're looking into moving to freebsd (yea!), but found the following > problem. It seems that the shortest amount of time the below code will > sleep for

Re: timing question

2001-08-06 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Jeff Behl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010806 12:48] wrote: > please excuse and direct me to the right place if this isn't the appropriate > place to post this sort of question > > we're looking into moving to freebsd (yea!), but found the following > problem. It seems that the shortest amount of