[Asterisk-Dev] High resolution timers using POSIX clocks instead of zaptel

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Derek Smithies wrote:

> 
> Does anyone have some realworld experience on a recent machine & software 
> timers to prove they are still a bad idea?
> 

Fact of life - on a 2.4 Linux kernel for x86 or PPC the timer resolution 
is 10ms (look for the HZ macro in /usr/src/linux/include/asm/param.h) 
That's simply not enough.

2.6 is a whole different kettle of fish.

Gilad



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