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

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <1117234853.32118.8.camel at localhost.localdomain>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 10:56 +1200, Derek Smithies wrote:
> > Does anyone have some realworld experience on a recent machine & software 
> > timers to prove they are still a bad idea?
> 
> Anyone using ztdummy on a 2.6 kernel is using precisely the same
> software timers which drive the kernel's POSIX timer support.

Which are still lacking, in my experience (on a dual 3GHz Xeon), and
the whole reason for the recent update to ztdummy via bug #4301.

Although as it stands, a user needs to know to enable USE_RTC by hand
in order to obtain the benefits. :-(

Cheers
Tony
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