Re: sleep sleeping too long

[Aleksej Saushev <asau%inbox.ru@localhost>]

"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> writes:

> What would cause this?
>
>
> tx:work$ date ; sleep 3 ; date
> Thu Mar 27 10:58:51 CDT 2008
> Thu Mar 27 10:59:00 CDT 2008
> tx:work$ date ; sleep 1 ; date 
> Thu Mar 27 10:59:15 CDT 2008
> Thu Mar 27 10:59:18 CDT 2008
> tx:work$ date ; sleep 5 ; date 
> Thu Mar 27 10:59:23 CDT 2008
> Thu Mar 27 10:59:36 CDT 2008
> tx:work$ uname -a
> NetBSD tx.reedmedia.net 4.99.55 NetBSD 4.99.55 (GENERIC) #1: Mon Mar 17 
> 13:16:38 CDT 2008  
> reed%tx.reedmedia.net@localhost:/usr/src/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC 
> amd64

For instance, heavy I/O load.

Step by step explanation:

   date     - starts "date", prints time, exits
   sleep 3  - starts "sleep", sleeps for 3 sec.
   date     - waits for I/O (may wait any time, 5 sec isn't unusually long),
              starts "date", prints time, exits


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