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Article #75Re: Why does windows2000 ping have a resolution of 10ms?
From: Duncan
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:58
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:58
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Will Dean <abuse@industrial.demon.co.uk> wrote >The default system timer tick on NT/2K/XP machines is generally 10ms on >single-processor x86, and 15ms on multiprocessor machines. > >However, it's open to any application on the system to speed this up to as >fast as 1ms, by making a specific API call. Because there is of course >only one system timer, this change will affect all applications which are >running, quite possibly including ping. > <snip> >If you can find something (of the VC variety) to compile it, the following >code might make a difference to your system: > <snip> Thanks for that Will. I tried it but still getting 10ms in ping. Anyone else got any ideas? -- Duncan
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