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To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: TCP timers (Was: Re: new timeout routines) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 16:03:57 -0700
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>This will increase the load on the timer code with a lot of 20 tick
>timers for a 100Hz softclock.

   "A lot"? There will be exactly _one_. This is not a problem. Please read
again what I wrote and tell me how I was unclear so that I don't make the
same mistake in the future.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project