In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Polstra writes: > >Yes, I think you're onto something now. It's a 550 MHz. machine, so > >the TSC increments every 1.82 nsec. And 1.82 nsec * 2^32 is 7.81 > >seconds. :-) > > In that case I'm almost willing to put an AnchorSteam on microuptime() > being interrupted for more than good is in which case the splhigh() should > cure it.
I'm testing that now. But for how long would microuptime have to be interrupted to make this happen? Surely not 7.81 seconds! On this same machine I have a curses application running which is updating the screen once a second. It never misses a beat, and userland is very responsive. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
