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Re: kernel timer resolution



On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:49 +0200, Avrahami David wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could you please tell me what's the kernel timer resolution on RHEL
> 3(u2) kernel?

on x86 and x86-64 it's 100Hz,  on ia64 it's 1024 Hz.

That mean a 10msec resulution on x86, however do keep in mind that
several posix interfaces are required to round time intervals upwards,
so those may get a 20ms minimum.

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