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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:54:44 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil periodic thread does zero sleep()
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> 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