Premature wakeup of time.sleep()

2005-09-12 Thread Erich Schreiber
e logs I see a about 1% of the wake-up delays beeing negative from -1ms to about -20ms somewhat correlated with the duration of the sleep. 20 minute sleeps tend to wake-up earlier then sub-second sleeps. Can somebody explain this to me? Regards, Erich Schreiber -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Premature wakeup of time.sleep()

2005-09-21 Thread Erich Schreiber
Thank you every body for your comments. Especially Jeff Epler for your hint about NTP. You're right. I see a (constant but somewhat huge)time drift of about 1 ms/min which I can correct for. Thank you Steve Horsley for the clarification of the interrupts that would end the delay. I didn't think o