Re: time function behaving strane

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 09:45 +0530, Conio sandiago wrote:
> Hi all,
> i am using time function in my application.
> When i call the try function in a loop of say 1 lac iterations then i
> m facing strange behaviour.
> 
> What i am doing is that i am making a call twice to time function
> inside every iteration and i compare the time of both the calls.
> But sometimes the time obtained from recent call is 1 second less than
> the previous call.
> 
> Has anybody observed such kind of problem??

Time inconsistencies are possible with some hardware, although full
second inconsistencies are a bit large.

Please open a bug at  http://bugzilla.kernel.org

Attach a full dmesg log and assign it to me.

thanks
-john