Message-ID: <3A316668.FA09B6CB@computer.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:53:28 +0000
From: Garry Smith
Subject: microsecond clock timer
Hi all,
I am about to start doing some performance testing on a software project
that I am involved with.
I would like to use my version of SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional as one of
the test platforms.
How can I get Linux to provide microsecond granularity when I make calls
to the system clock?
In otherwords, I need a microsecond clock on Linux to get accurate
performance measurements of my software?
I have seen some information about this subject on the Net, but it seems
to be focused on earlier versions of the Linux kernel.
On my machine, unama -a returns : Linux eclipse 2.2.16 #1 Wed Aug 2
20:22:26 GMT 2000 i686 unknown
This is a uniprocessor machine, Intel Pentium III 450
Could you explain what I must do (and how) to achieve this
functionality? Or does SuSE 7.0 already support the microsecond clock
as standard?
Many thanks in advance for your kind help
regards
Garry
