From: Ganesh Gunasegaran <ganesh.gunasegaran@...>
Date: 2007-04-27T06:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: 10 millisecond delay/callback

Are you running Fedora inside a virtual machine?

Virtual machines like VMware, qemu are known to cause clock skews!

Cheers,
Ganesh Gunasegaran.

On 27-Apr-07, at 2:32 AM, Earle Clubb wrote:

> unknown wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Earle Clubb wrote:
>>
>>> 132
>>> 143
>>> 162
>>> 191
>>
>> Try select()
>> ----
>> irb(main):005:0> 0.upto(25) do
>> irb(main):006:1* select(nil,nil,nil,0.01)
>> irb(main):007:1> puts Time.now.usec/1000
>> irb(main):008:1> end
>> 138
>> 148
>> 158
>> 168
>
> I just tried select and had the same results as sleep:
>
> irb(main):001:0> 25.times do
> irb(main):002:1* select(nil,nil,nil,0.01)
> irb(main):003:1> puts Time.now.usec/1000
> irb(main):004:1> end
> 787
> 797
> 814
> 839
> 858
> 877
> 894
> 912
> 932
> 951
> 965
> 985
> 1
> 21
> 39
> 62
> 81
> 100
> 117
> 134
> 154
> 174
> 193
> 212
> 228
>
>
> FWIW, I'm using ruby 1.8.5 on Fedora Core 6 with kernel
> 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6.
>
> Earle
>
>
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