Re: 2.6.14-rc4-rt1

George Anzinger
2005-10-12T22:10:09Z

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>
>>i'm not sure latency traces will uncover anything useful for this bug.
>>Your problems could be timer issues: timers going off too fast cause
>>high keyboard repeat rates, and the same goes for the screensaver. Does
>>'sleep 1' work as expected, or is that timing out in an "accelerated"
>>way too?
>>
>
>
> I usually recommend doing a 'sleep 10'. It really shows you if things are
> wrong. If a sleep 1 returns 2 seconds, or 0.5 seconds later it may not be
> detected. But a sleep 10 returning 20 seconds or 5 seconds later is
> obvious.

Or maybe:
'time sleep 10'

Lets the machine time it.

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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
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