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Timer resolution controller

The default timer resolution on Windows 2000 machines is about 10 ms. Our timer resolution controller reduces the timer resolution as much as possible using well-documented system calls [16]. On the systems we used, this makes timer resolution, and thus scheduling granularity, 1 ms.



Jay Lorch 2003-02-19