[ace-users] Innacurate timers in Linux after 5.5.6

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> > Have you also tested with the traditional way of 
> compilation? My first
> > question would be whether this is a code change or an 
> autoconf change you
> > see. Be aware of the fact that 99% of the tests on the 
> scoreboard is using
> > traditional way of compilation.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response! Compiling the traditional work did
> work. I would have never thought of that. Do you know what kind of
> parameter can have an influence on timers that the 'configure' script
> doesn't get right?

The configure script does check a lot of defines, but it really isn't
complete. A large amount of work has to be done to improve that support, but
that will need funding. Probably something gets detected wrong and then in
ACE_OS::gethrtime() the wrong code is triggered.

Regards,

Johnny Willemsen
Remedy IT
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