Re: Timers in application (again)

[Frode Tenneboe <ft@alne.edh.ericsson.se>]

(just got my newsfeed back - seems to be missing a few articles in this
thread though)

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
: Simon Wright wrote:

:> Solaris runs with 10 mS ticks out-of-the-box. You can easily set this (2.6
:> and later) to 1 mS (set hires_tick to 1 in /etc/system).

: So both 20 and 50Hz should be achievable "out of the box". Frode can go check
: /etc/system to see if the default has been modified.

The default has not been changed.

Would changing to a hires tick improve reliability when I don't want/need
granularity of <10mS?

Must I run as root on solaris to get the expected behviour? It appears
as it works better for root but I have not tested heavily.

 -Frode
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