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From: Steven Ayre <steveayre@gmail.com>
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Subject: kqueue + EVFILT_TIMER unreliable timing problems
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Hi everyone,

I'm trying to use kqueue with EVFILT_TIMER to create an interval timer.
However, I'm getting very unreliable results.

The code for a test case is at: http://pastebin.com/ratK0AXL

I'm finding that regardless of the number of ticks I wait for, it takes
around 50% longer than it should.

For a 20ms interval, 200 ticks takes 6s not 4s, 2000 takes 60s not 40s.

I am running FreeBSD within a virtualbox VM (Windows host, no load) so I
know timing may not be as reliable as if I was on the bare metal, but this
still much higher than expected.

-Steve