> Leo Weppelman wrote:
> 
> >If the value of HZ you select cannot be made from the
> >crystal-freq. without rounding errors, the system time will be drifting.
> 
> That's what the variables tickfix and tickfixcnt in kern_clock.c deal
> with.

"i'm not so sure about that."

tickfix can deal with cases where the number of milliseconds in a tick
isn't integral, but the number of microseconds is (or something like
that).  That's what it was intended for.

If the clock doesn't divide a second into an integral number of
microseconds (or whatever), it won't work...

of course, the drift won't be too bad, either...  8-)


cgd