Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] timing resolution, Linux Redhat 7.1

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From: "Raghu Arni" <arni@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:28:04 -0400
This is basically controlled by a variable called jiffies..This is stored in
one of the header files..Cannot remember right away..been a while since I
played with it.  The default timer resolution for i386 is 10ms..U can change
the jiffies to get 1ms but not beyond that I think...If u want greater
resolution than that then see:

http://www.ittc.ku.edu/utime/

hth,
A

> The timing resolution I'm seeing running Ethereal 8.18
> on Redhat 7.1 is 1/100 sec.  The same version of Ethereal
> running on Win2k or on NetBSD gives results to usec.
>
> Is this a Redhat 7.1 kernel issue?  I'd like to understand
> what the problem is as well as whether it is fixable by
> rebuilding the kernel (or Ethereal using a different set of
> libraries).
>
> -Dave Erickson
>
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