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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] odd clock behaviour
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 14:25:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea9842bac4e9f2eaf51651a3f5e381e6@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adf30368253013c874236cf40a6b9ac4@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> As long as edf isn't being used (which I think is true everywhere)
> it won't hurt to do that.  I think that rsc does it for vmware
> to avoid slow downs due to the constant clock trimming.

Actually I do it because setting the timer is a REALLY
expensive operation in VMware, and completely unnecessary
if you're not using edf.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-13 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13 18:58 rog
2003-03-13 19:15 ` David Presotto
2003-03-13 19:25   ` Russ Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-20 18:07 rog
2003-03-13 18:43 David Presotto
2003-03-13 18:06 rog
2003-03-13 14:43 rog
2003-03-13 14:25 rog
2003-03-13 14:30 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-03-13 15:40 ` Russ Cox
2003-03-13 16:22 ` Sam
2003-03-13 16:26   ` David Presotto
2003-03-13 17:06     ` Russ Cox
2003-03-13 17:50       ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-03-13 18:39 ` Dan Cross
2003-03-13 18:40 ` Dan Cross

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