Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:55:49 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: jlemon@americantv.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP Message-ID: <99Aug31.085422est.40344@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990830173120.30486@right.PCS>
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Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> wrote: >On Aug 08, 1999 at 03:01:32PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >> I don't want to sound ungrateful, but couldn't we have defined these in >> terms of Usecs and translated? ... > I think that having it in units of usec is >probably better than msec; it provides more in the way of >"forward compatability", Given a 32-bit integer, it also puts a much lower limit on the maximum. This is likely to bite on TCP keep-alives - currently they are set to 2 hours. We can't represent 2 hours as usecs in 32 bits. > and allows for a larger HZ. Not really. The only problem is that the rounding errors get more noticable as the number of units approaches HZ. This is an artifact that should be pointed out in the description - eg if you ask for 2msec on an Alpha, you'll probably get 1.66msec. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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