1. thread switching time? (Krassimir Slavchev)

[Sam Xia]

hi krassi,

 what kind of hardware are you using?  Actually because of process/thread
scheduling mechanism, timing granulariy is coarse in FreeBSD(more than 10
ms)
 
S.X
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> Hello All,
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> I am using FreeBSD 7 and would like to decrease the time of 
> switching between threads. This time seems to be 1ms and it 
> is impossible to make lower delays inside a thread, at least 
> using nanosleep().
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> Is it possible to decrease this time to 1us?
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> Best Regards
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