> You're never going to get 1000 all the time, no matter who says what. > > from the usleep() man page: > BUGS > Probably not accurate on many machines down to the > microsecond. Count on precision only to -4 or maybe -5.
It is not possible to achieve a forever constant 1000 in practice, no. But as you have seen, it is possible to come very close. With -pingboost 2, HL1 actually uses select() for its delays. It likely has some minor precision errors as well (though these have been reduced by recent improvements in the kernel), but regardless, most of the time this will be trumped by internal factors, such as the game simply taking longer than 1ms to handle a tick, and external factors, such as a high overall machine load or delays in writing to the disk. -John _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
