Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 21:00:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: stefan@callmedia.se Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Time granularity Message-ID: <199810232100.OAA02144@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199810221827.UAA22987@callmedia.se> from "stefan@callmedia.se" at Oct 22, 98 08:52:45 pm
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> Unfortunately we have some of these horrible SCO 3.2 server(something). > (We can't at this moment port that software to FreeBSD. driver stuff) > Is there anyone that have any clue on how to get bigger time > granularity on SCO 3.2 than hundreds of a second(thousands with CPU > time usage)? We need to do very accurate timing in a kind of competition. > Is there any library for this kind of stuff out there? > > (With FreeBSD's timing functionality and virtual clocks there is no > problem, I know,) If this is a Pentium, you can read the instruction cycle counter; see the FreeBSD "timecounter" code in the /sys/i386 directory for more details. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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