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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:14:28 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Richard P. Williamson" <richard.williamson@u4eatech.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: timestamp in 4.8?
Message-ID:  <20040413151428.GG19655@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.2.20040413152416.025514d8@cygnus>
References:  <6.1.0.6.2.20040413152416.025514d8@cygnus>

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In the last episode (Apr 13), Richard P. Williamson said:
> Is there a reasonable timestamp (that uses a struct timeval
> to return data by preference) in 4.8R?
>
> TSTMP (option KERN_TIMESTAMP) writes the rdtsc clock
> value to debug.timestamps in sysctl-space.  That does
> not suit my purposes (need to timestamp the creation
> of objects which are passed about).

Why not use gettimeofday()?  If you need more precision than
microseconds, you probably can bump up HZ and use clock_gettime().

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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