Modern systems are very aggressive about DVFS (dynamic voltage and frequency scaling) so it would not surprise me at all. I have run across this problem on the timescale of one second even on 10 year old desktop hardware.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:32:56 -0500, you wrote: >Hi > >Id be surprised if a laptop running on wall power and doing a variety of low >level >traffic every second is throttling the chip set. It *is* doing something weird >and >that certainly is one candidate. Im not quite as concerned with the *why* the >bumps >occur (though I am curious). Im more interested in the fact that they are >really >enormous (compared to other delays). How they do microsecond timing with them >in the mix is the big question. > >Bob _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
