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On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 05:16:32AM +0100, lists@badzong.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>=20
> I just wrote a small test application using nanosleep, usleep & select
> and compiled it on freebsd 6.1 and netbsd 3.0. While the timers on
> freebsd were pretty accurate and stayed within an expected range,
> netbsd's diverged massively:
>=20
> The program sleeps 3 times for 1000 usec and measures how long it was
> suspended.
>=20
>~~~~~~~~~
>=20
> Why is netbsd so inaccurate and is there a more precise system call or a
> workaround?
>=20

(Just a guess.)

Because FreeBSD 6.1 has timecounters. NetBSD 3.1 does not. You really want
to test this on netbsd-4 or -current, as timecounters were added since
the 3.x branches.

	Jonathan Kollasch

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