Subject: Re: usleep() and system clock resolution
To: Ruibiao Qiu <ruibiao@arl.wustl.edu>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/18/2000 14:46:41
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:48:03PM -0500, Ruibiao Qiu wrote:

 > >That would make the granularity slightly less than 5ms, and might work
 > >on a PC.
 > 
 > I cant find this option in `man options`.  I am running a 1.4.1
 > GENERIC kernel.  What does this option mean?  Thanks.

The option means: The number of times per second the hardware clock
interrupts the operating systems.  This is the rate at which hardclock()
runs.

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