[erlang-questions] Unexpected behaviour of timer:sleep

[Kevin Scaldeferri]

On Mar 19, 2008, at 5:23 AM, shehan wrote:

> In WindowsXP.
>
> How ever in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3, below result  
> came. It is
> also more than that. So timer:sleep(1) cannot be used as it is. I  
> need to
> suspend process for 1 millisecond. But it is suspend 12 or 13  
> milliseconds.
> Then my requirement cannot be achieved.

This is a OS issue, most likely.  Try setting HZ=1000 and see if you  
get any better results.


-kevin