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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil periodic thread does zero sleep()
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:54:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8755fbe09f6563d841971b95f67e365f@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5ec93342b820ee31072481987411c2f@gmx.de>

> The problem is that when sleep is a little bit too fast on every round,
> t will never catch up with ct. so it sleeps shorter and shorter until
> t - ct < 1.
>
> It all works when changing t += msec to t = ct + msec. It may still
> do a zero sleep, but the error will not add up.

why not just get rid of the double?  then you will never zero sleep.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-23  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-22 23:13 cinap_lenrek
2009-03-22 23:41 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-23  0:16   ` cinap_lenrek
2009-03-23  0:24     ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-23  0:52       ` cinap_lenrek
2009-03-23  0:54         ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2009-03-23  4:04     ` ron minnich
2009-03-23 13:27       ` ron minnich
2009-03-23  0:24   ` cinap_lenrek

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